"Once in a rare lifetime have you ever been in a roomful of people who only helped you when you looked at them, listened to them. this was one of those...











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"the lies of centuries, the lies of love,the lies of Socrates and Blake and Christwill be your bedmates and tombstonesin a death that will never end.
"I like to prowl ordinary places.I feel sorry for us all or glad for us allcaught alive togetherand awkward in that way.there's nothing better than the...
"for meobedience to another is the decayof self
"I care for you, darling, I love you,the only reason I fucked L. is because you fuckedZ. and then I fucked R. and you fucked N.and because you fucked N...
"I like to prowl ordinary placesand taste the people-from a distance.
"Whether I was a genius or not did not so much concern me as the fact that I simply did not want a part of anything. The animal-drive and energy of my ...
"After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what -- I said, "Look, baby, I'm sorry, but don'...
"Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
"I needed a vacation. I needed 5 women. I needed to get the wax out of my ears. My car needed an oil change. I'd failed to file my damned income tax. O...
"I'm not dead yet, just in a state of rapid decay, who isn't?
"I killed four flies while waiting. Damn, death was everywhere. Man, bird, beast, reptile, rodent, insect, fish didn't have a chance. The fix was in. I...
"There is always somebody about to ruin your day, if not your life.
"Life wore a man out, wore a man thin.Tomorrow would be a better day.
"I decided to stay in bed until noon. Maybe by then half the world would be dead and it would only be half as hard to take.