Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields!

I saw that it was all over, put away in a box like a doll no longer cared for, the magical intimacy of our childhood together

If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets.

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing. When you're going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.