But you can’t put fight into a man’s guts if he hasn’t any fight in him. There are some of us so cowardly that you can’t ever make heroes of us, not even if you frighten us to death. We know too much, maybe. There are some of us who don’t live in the moment, who live a little ahead, or a little behind.

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

To the man whose senses are alive and alert there is not even the need to stir from one's threshold.

The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition.

I felt free and chained at the same time - like one feels just before election, when all the crooks have been nominated and you are beseeched to vote for the right man.

The waking mind, you see, is the least serviceable in the arts.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.