Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails.
The hangover was brutal but he didn't mind. It told him he had been somewhere else, someplace good.
I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.
Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.
They, all of them, seemed to put literary form in front of the actuality and living of life itself.
True revolution comes from true revulsion; when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion.
Four days alone with nothing. Emerge empowered. The first human face you see will knock you back 50%.
I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love.
If I'm an ass, I should say so. If I don't, somebody else will. If I say it first, that disarms them.
When I'm drinking around people, I tend to get silly or pugnacious or wild, which can cause problems.
Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don't give a damn.
since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light
you boys can keep your virgins give me hot old women in high heels with asses that forgot to get old.
The courage it took to get out of bed each morning to face the same things over and over was enormous.
my greatest problem was stamps, envelopes, paper and wine, with the world on the edge of World War II.
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library.
Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others.
i dunno," i said, "but i have an idea that people who don't think too much tend to look younger longer
We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.
When a writer is swayed with his fame and his fortune, you can float him down the river with the turds.
People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.
but as God said, crossing his legs, I see where I have made plenty of poets but not so very much poetry.
human relationships simply aren't durable. I think back to the women in my life. they seem non-existent.
I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!
Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.
Gradually I came to realize that my understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasure is concerned.
Trouble and pain were what kept a man alive. Or trying to avoid trouble and pain. It was a full time job.
...in that drunken place you would like to hand your heart to her and say touch it but then give it back.
there is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy
all that I know is that I believe in the sound of music and the running of a horse. all else is squabble.
but isn't there always one good thing to look back on? think of how many cups of coffee we drank together.
I was fairly poor but most of my money went for wine and classical music. I loved to mix the two together.
if you get married they think you're finished and if you are without a woman they think you're incomplete.
In a capitalistic society the losers slaved for the winners and you have to have more losers than winners.
Art is its own excuse, and it's either Art or it's something else. It's either a poem or a piece of cheese.
The worst men have the best jobs the best men have the worst jobs or are unemployed or locked in madhouses.
People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.
I am for the small man who has not forgotten, for the man who loves his beer and his women and his sunlight
I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.
they simply never understand, do they, that sometimes solitude is one of the most beautiful things on earth?
Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art
Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateurs drunks, the bores.
I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning.
and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical sense and are not easy to fool with laughter
People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.
In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed. To sit around licking my ass.
there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock
like the fox I run with the hunted and if I’m not the happiest man on earth I’m surely the luckiest man alive.
In a more universal sense, we only get one thing. You know...a head stone if we're lucky; if not, green grass.