Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.

I'm much more conscious of historical events since the '60s. In the '60s, I was insulated by my own addictions, my own lifestyle, from what was going on in the world. After I recovered I was amazed at certain people who had died. I hadn't noticed that they had gone. Not friends ... I'm talking about public figures who had passed away.

Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.

All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.

Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

Men don't want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.