Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

It is strange how fragile this man-creature is.....in one second he's just garbage. Garbage, that's all.

The only way I could finish a book and get a plot was just to keep making it longer until something happens.

Never lie down with a woman who's got more troubles than you.

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

And never, ever, no matter what else you do in your whole life, never sleep with anyone whose troubles are worse than your own.

He was falling between glacial walls, he didn't know how anyone could fall so far away from everyone else in the world. So far to fall, so cold all the way, so steep and dark between those morphine-coloured walls.