I guess we often get the deep blues, both of us, and wonder what it all means- the people, the buildings, the day by day things, the waste of time, of ourselves.

I've never met another man I'd rather be.

It was only the matter of a new voice. Nobody listened to an old voice anymore. Old voices became a part of one's self, like a fingernail.

When you clean up a city, you destroy it.

I have loved you woman as surely as I have named you rust and sand and nylon.

I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.

I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.