I had gone to no such place but to the smoke of cafes and nights when the room whirled and you needed to look at the wall to make it stop, nights in bed, drunk, when you knew that that was all there was, and the strange excitement of waking and not knowing who it was with you, and the world all unreal in the dark and so exciting that you must resume again unknowing and not caring in the night, sure that this was all and all and all and not caring.

When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.

I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds.

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

Thou wilt go now, rabbit. But I go with thee. As long as there is one of us there is both of us.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.