50 quotes found
“the price of creationis nevertoo high.the price of livingwith other peoplealwaysis.”
“There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into the streets is a writer who does not know the streets. . . when you leave your typewriter you leave...”
“Basically, that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my ass from the madhouse, from the streets, from myself.”
“Her one drink had Cecelia giggling and talking and she was explaining that animals had souls too. Nobody challenged her opinion. It was possible, we knew. What we weren't sure of was if we had any.”
“You're the most unknown famous man I ever met”
“I don't know. It's been terribly hard for me. How do I know you won't do it again?''Nobody is ever quite sure of what they will do. You aren't sure what you might do.”
“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 fellow man amazed me: that a man could change t...”
“All we do is sleep, and eat and lay around and make love. We're like slugs. Slug-love, I call it.”
“And it seems people should not build houses anymoreit seems people should stop working and sit in small rooms on second floorsunder electric lightswithout shades;it seems there is a lot to forgetan...”
“Yawn...I believe that I love sleepmuch more than anybody Ive evermet.I have the ability to sleep for2 or 3 days andnights.I will go to bed at any givenmoment.I often confused my girlfriendsthis way...”
“and love is a word usedtoo much andmuchtoo soon.”
“regret is mostly caused by not havingdone anything.”
“sometimes it's hard to knowwhat todo.”
“I found the best thingI could dowas just to type awayat my own workand let the dyingdieas they always have.”
“when I drive the freeways I see the soul of humanity ofmy city and it's ugly, ugly, ugly: the living have choked theheartaway.”
“Weve all heard that little woman who says, Oh, its terrible what these young people do to themselves, in my lsi other drugs, is a terrible thing.Then you look, the woman who speaks in this way: you...”
“If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.”
“Are there good governments and bad governments? No, there are only bad governments and worse governments.”
“to ask them to legalize pot is something like asking them to put butter on the handcuffs before they place them on you, something else is hurting you - that's why you need pot or whiskey, or whips ...”
“Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way.”
