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....

all theorieslike clichesshot to hell,all these small faceslooking upbeautiful and believing;I wish to weepbut sorrow isstupid.I wish to believe but believe is agraveyard. we have narrowed it down tothe butcherknife and themockingbird wish usluck.

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.

Don’t you go to the movies?””Mostly just to eat popcorn in the dark.

People need me. I fill them. If they can’t see me for a while they get desperate, they get sick. But if I see them too often I get sick. It’s hard to feed without...

Like anybody can tell you, I am not a very nice man. I don’t know the word. I have always admired the villain, the outlaw, the son of a bitch. I don’t like the clean-shaven...

The nights you fight best arewhen all the weapons are pointed at you,when all the voices hurl their insultswhile the dream is being strangled.The nights you fight best arewhen reason gets kicked in the gut,when...

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...

great books are the ones we need

People lack originality.

I´ve given you my time. Its all I´ve got to give – its all any man has. And for a pitiful buck and a quarter an hour.

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 forgetand a lot not...

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.

You have to die a few times before you can reallylive.

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...

I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread

Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when there are ten...

Dying should come easy:like a freight train youdon’t hear whenyour back isturned.

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

jan was an excellent fuck…she had a tight pussy and she took it like it was a knife that was killing her.

Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.

I could never acceptlife as it was,I could never gobbledown all itspoisonsbu there were parts,tenuous magic partsopen for theasking.

I found the best thingI could dowas just to type awayat my own workand let the dyingdieas they always have.

what you werewill not happen again.the tigers have found meand I do not care.

I wanted the whole world or nothing.

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,,,

Yes Yeswhen God created love he didn’t help most when God created dogs He didn’t help dogs when God created plants that was average when God created hate we had a standard utility when God...

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...

That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience

Hey, Hank, I notice all the women around your place lately … good looking stuff; you’re doing all right.””Sam,” I say, “that’s not true; I am one of God’s most lonely men.

Medju nama nije bilo nikakve veze, osim sto smo pili i vodili ljubav.

She was perfect, pure maddening sex, and she knew it, and she played on it, dripped it, and allowed you to suffer for it.

There is a quality about women who choosemen sparingly;it appears in their walkin their eyesin their laughter and in theirgentle hearts.

I am sick with caring.

There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on. Yet most people are stricken with fear. They fear failure so much that they fail.

Some people never go crazy, what truly horrible lives they must live.

When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with...

not writing is not good but trying to write when you can’t is worse.

I could read the great books but the great books don’t interest me.

she wasn’t veryinterestingbut few peopleare.

Well it’s good to have a car like that, once in a while somebody’ll say, ‘why don’t you come over for dinner?’ and I can just say, ‘Car won’t make it.’ I don’t have to...

beware those quick to praise for they need praise in return beware those who are quick to censor they are afraid of what they do not know beware those who seek constant crowds for they...

I dislike interaction. The less I say the better I feel. I was naturally a loner. I didn’t want conversation, or to goanywhere. I didn’t understand other people who wanted to share their emotions. Parties...

I don’t hate people. I just feel better when they aren’t around.

Voglio così tanto che non è quì e che non so dove cercarlo.

If you can hit a guy once, you can hit him twice.

some moments are nice, some arenicer, some are even worthwritingabout.

Finally there is nothing here for death to take away.

when I am feelinglowall i have to do iswatch my catsand mycouragereturns

It’s all overrated, man. Sex is only a great thing if you’re not getting any.