fear life but don't die, your alone, everybody's alone, oh Cody Pomeray you can't win you can't lose all is ephemeral all is hurt

I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.

Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'... But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine.' There's wisdom in wine, goddam it!' I yelled. 'Have a shot!

Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.

...most of the time we were alone and mixing up our souls ever more and ever more till it would be terribly hard to say good-by.

My shoes are clean from walking in the rain.

Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.' 'Where we going, man?' 'I don't know but we gotta go.