When you're an addict, you can go without feeling anything except drunk or stoned or hungry. Still, when you compare this to other feelings, to sadness, anger, fear, worry, despair, and depression, well, an addiction no longer looks so bad. It looks like a very viable option.

Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer.

It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.

Don’t ask me when be­cause I don’t re­mem­ber, but some­where along the way I keep for­get­ting to com­mit sui­cide.

I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing.

We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.

A hotel, he told me, was a big house where a lot of people lived and ate and slept, but no one knew each other. He said that described most families in the outside world.