"Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are."

"I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people."

"She was consumed by 3 simple things: drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more: youth and beauty"

"You boys can keep your virgins give me hot old women in high heels with asses that forgot to get old."

"There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock"

"I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare."

"Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink."

"People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love."

"Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing."

"I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love."

"Of course it's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well."

"Poetry is what happens when nothing else can."

"There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you."

"A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover."

"Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them."

"I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of."

"Some lose all mind and become soul,insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. some lose both and become accepted"

"Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone."

"Find what you love and let it kill you."

"If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose"

"There are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it's too late and there's nothing worse than too late"

"What matters most is how well you walk through the fire"

"Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way."

"It's the devil who pulls the strings that make us dance"