“this time has finished me.”

“Baby, in a couple of minutes I'm going to rip off your god damned panties and show you some turkey neck you'll remember all the way to the graveside. I have a vast and curved penis, like a sickle, and many a gutted pussy has gasped come upon my callous and roach-smeared rug. First let me finish this drink.”

“Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.”

“It's just that the grape has me down.”

“Some people have written that my writing has helped them go on.It has helped me too. The writing, the roses, the 9 cats.”

“Your writing", she said to me, "it's so raw. It's like a sledgehammer, and yet it has humor and tenderness. . . .”

“I’ve had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can’t quite make out what it is. It takes time.”