In years to come, he would be a giver of bread, not a stealer - proof again of the contradictory human being. So much good, so much evil. Just add water.

There were not many people who could say that their education had been paid for with cigarettes.

I wanted to drown inside a woman in the feeling and drooling of the love I could give her. I wanted her pulse to crush me with its intensity. That's what I wanted. That's what I wanted myself to be.

Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer--it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.

The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this.

It would then be brought abruptly to an end, for the brightness had shown suffering the way.

I think she ate a salad and some soup. And loneliness. She ate that, too.