“When you clean up a city, you destroy it.”

“Why do you insist upon destroying yourself?”

“there is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy”

“The trouble with these people is that their cities have never been bombed and their mothers have never been told to shut up.”

“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.”

“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 the chariots of gloom encircle you.The nights you fight best arewhen the laughter of fools fills the air,when the kiss of death is mistaken for love.The nights you fight best arewhen the game is fixed,when the crowd screams for your blood.The nights you fight best areon a night like thisas you chase a thousand dark rats from your brain,as you rise up against the impossible,as you become a brother to the tender sister of joyand move on regardless.”

“the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.”