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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 h...more

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I'm not a guru. I wish you wouldn't pose these things at me, man. Ask me about women or something.

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if you are going to try, go all the way.. Otherwise, don’t even start.. If you are going to try, go all the way.. This could mean losing girlfriends, ...more

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

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Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When ...more

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The factories, the jails, the drunken days and nights, the hospitals have weakened and shaken me like a mouse in the mouth of a hip-cat: life.- from a...more

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You understand, we just don't fuck with truth.

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People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.

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Ya got cigarettes?” she asks. “Yes,” I say,“I got cigarettes.” “Matches?” she asks.“Enough to burn Rome.” “Whiskey?”“Enough whiskey for a Mississippi ...more

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that your power of commandwith simple language wasone of the magnificent things ofour century.(from the poem: result)

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where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die,

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Basically, that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my ass from the madhouse, from the streets, from myself.

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my mother, poor fish,wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times aweek, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!why don't you ever smile?"and then sh...more

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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...more

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I have one problem, I don’t hate people. They disgust me and I want to get away from them. I do not have hatred. I have an escape mechanism.