To be young is the only religion.

The apartment was built at the edge of a high cliff so that when you looked out the back window it seemed as if you were twelve floors up instead of four. It was very much like living on the edge of the world - a last resting place before the final big drop.

It's not the large things that send a man to the madhouse... no, it's the continuing series of small tragedies... not the death of his love but the shoelace that snaps with no time left.

If you can't write the next line, well, you're dead. The past doesn't matter.

I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.

I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.

if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it.