“Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way.”
“Some days are like this. And the only way to get through them is to remember that they are only one day, and that every day ends.”
“You have endless ways you can commit suicide without dying dying.”
“I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.”
“At times it seems as if arranging to have no commitment of any kind to anyone would be a special freedom. But in fact the whole idea works in reverse. The most deadly commitment of all is to be committed only to one's self. Some come to realize this after they are in the nursing home.”
“The way I was boozing was a kind of suicide. It was only gonna be a matter of time.”