Some crime against nature is about to be committed. I feel it in my veins. These men and boys are grocers and clerks, gardeners and fathers - fathers of small children. A country cannot bear to lose them.

Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.

Why take drugs specifically designed to send you insane?

Lonely's like any other organism; competitive and resourceful in the struggle to perpetuate itself.

I am driven by a greater force than I can resist. I believe that force has its own reason and its own morality even if they may never be clear to me while I am alive

One thing about London is that when you step out into the night, it swallows you.

I don't think you ever understand your life - not till it's finished and probably not then either. The more I live the less I seem to understand.