If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.

Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets.

Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.

What's wrong with this world is, it's not finished yet. It is not completed to that point where man can put his final signature to the job and say, "It is finished. We made it, and it works.

It's not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it's when you realize that you don't need any aid.

any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man

I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie