Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.
Sleep with a dog and rise full of fleas.
What I sometimes mistake for ecstasy is simply the absence of grief.
I don’t have music, Christ I wish I had music but all I have is words.
Of course I loved you, you saved my life. I wish you hadn’t I wish you hadn’t I wish you’d left me alone.
It is myself I have never met whose face is pasted on the underside of my mind