Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.

Only a complete alcoholic can think life is funny ... any life!.

When you stay too long in the same place, things and people go to pot on you, they rot and start stinking for your special benefit.

The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.

If you aren't rich you should always look useful.

We never change. Neither our socks nor our masters nor our opinions, or we're so slow about it that it's no use. We were born loyal and that's what killed us! Soldiers free of charge, heroes for everyone else, talking monkeys, tortured words, we are the minions of King Misery...It's not a life.

I was a hundred-percent sick, I felt as if I had no further use for my legs, they just hung over the edge of my bed like unimportant and rather ridiculous objects.