Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one’s history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.

Life made you get your hands dirty; life was vengeful if you tried an easy route.

Reaction timeTouch the underside of a penny you find on the streetDoesn’t feel any different unless you close your eyesI can taste the copper in my mouth nowseeping from between my teethThere’s an explanation I’m...

They can talk shit about each other behind the others’ backs, but when it comes down to it, money is the one true race and everyone down here is the color of greenbacks and as...

The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.

What’s good for reform is bad for the reformers

Catholics don’t believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There’s always Confession, after all.–Brianna Fraser to Roger MacKenzie

Every man alive is half idiot & half hero. Only heroes could survive in this maelstrom & only idiots would want to.

If you stare at someone long enough, they’ll eventually look back at you.

Roses,” she thought sardonically, “All trash, m’dear.

You can see the people who thought they could come to London, bend over and pick gold off the streets. They’re all lying on benches in Trafalgar Square with hernias and cans of Special Brew.

It’s weird, marriage. It’s like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their ‘other half.

Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give more attention and consider the fruit of their labour more valuable

Every time you see a beautiful woman, just remember, somebody else got tired of her shit