21 quotes found
“To think, somebody had suicided for that.”
“If you can hit a guy once, you can hit him twice.”
“I didn't know if I was unhappy. I felt too miserable to be unhappy.”
“Anything, anything to stop drowning in this dull, trivial and cowardly existence.”
“I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.”
“I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.”
“You could sit in there all day drinking coffee and they never asked you to leave no matter how bad you looked. They just asked the bums not to bring their wine and drink it there. Places like that ...”
“Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can be very funny. When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it ...”
“All right, God, say that You are really there. You have put me in this fix. You want to test me. Suppose I test You? Suppose I say that You are not there? You've given me a supreme test with my par...”
“I'd decided the campus was just a place to hide. There were some campus freaks who stayed on forever. The whole college scene was soft. They never told you what to expect out there in the real worl...”
“There was no sense to life, to the structure of things. D.H. Lawrence had known that. You needed love, but not the kind of love most people used and were used up by. Old D.H. had known something. H...”
“I had also read somewhere that if a man didn't truly believe or understand what he was espousing, somehow he could do a more convincing job”
“It was a joy! Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened ...”
“What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.”
“I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.”
“When I get down to my last dime I'll just walk over to skid row.""There are some real weirdos down there.""They're everywhere.”
“since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light”
“I was like a turd that drew flies instead of like a flower that butterflies and bees desired. I wanted to live alone,I felt best being alone, cleaner,,,”
“Never bring a lot of money to where a poor man lives. He can only lose what little he has. On the other hand it is mathematically possible that he might win whatever you bring with you. What you mu...”
“First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library.”
