I no longer want it all, just some comfort and some sex and some minor love.

The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn't know what a lion is. He just thinks he does.

I see men assassinated around me every day. I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of the dead, cities of the dead; men without eyes, men without voices; men with manufactured feelings and standard reactions; men with newspaper brains, television souls and high school ideas.

I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.

morning night and noon the traffic moves through and the murder and treachery of friends and lovers and all the people move through you. pain is the joy of knowing the unkindest truth that arrives without warning. life is being alone death is being alone. even the fools weep morning night and noon.

I kept telling myself that all the women in the world weren´t whores, just mine.

yes, Wagner and the storm intermix with the wine as nights like this run up my wrists and up into my head and back down into the gut