41 quotes found
“All we do is sleep, and eat and lay around and make love. We're like slugs. Slug-love, I call it.”
“Strangers when you meet, strangers when you part -a gymnasium of bodies namelessly masturbating each other. People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the a...”
“I liked to fuck too, but it wasn't my religion. There were too many ridiculous and tragic things about it. People didn't seem to know how to handle it. So they made a toy out of it. A toy that dest...”
“She would have been a better fuck in Greece, maybe. America was a shitty place to fuck.”
“Her violence frightened me. She always claimed that I was the jealous one, and I was often jealous, but when I saw things working against me I simply became disgusted and withdrew. Lydia was differ...”
“I write fiction""Whats fiction?""Fiction is an improvement on life.”
“Goodness could be found sometimes in the middle of hell.”
“She had wild eyes, slightly insane. She also carried an overload of compassion that was real enough and which obviously cost her something.”
“being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.”
“I went to the kitchen and felt-up the turkey.”
“The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd.”
“People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.”
“Human relationships were strange. I mean, you were with one person a while, eating and sleeping and living with them, loving them, talking to them, going places together, and then it stopped. Then ...”
“Potential," I said, "doesn't mean a thing. You've got to do it. Almost every baby in a crib has more potential than I have.”
“But then if you lied to a man about his talent just because he was sitting across from you, that was the most unforgivable lie of them all, because that was telling him to go on, to continue which ...”
“That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and i...”
“I think I need a drink.''Almost everybody does only they don't know it.”
“I had never been a dresser. My shirts were all faded and shrunken, 5 or 6 years old, threadbare. My pants the same. I hated department stores, I hated the clerks, they acted so superior, they seeme...”
“I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day and bought huge quantities. I could feel them wondering why I wasn't dead yet and i...”
“The street to my left was backed up with traffic and I watched the people waiting patiently in the cars. There was almost always a man and a women, staring straight ahead, not talking. It was, fina...”
