The kick of comedy is to think quickly. It's a great kick.
It seemed that the good people were always cleaning up the messes.
The dead are never far from us. They're in our hearts and on our minds and in the end all that separates us from them is a single breath, one final puff of air.
Fishing, Danny boy, is purely a state of mind. Some men, when they are fishing, are after fish. Me, I'm after things you could never set a barbed hook in.
I was a sinner. I knew that without a doubt. But I was not alone. And the night was the accomplice of us all.
You stopped looking for the truth. . . I'd guess that's a sin we've all been guilty of.
It was best to believe in all possibilities. . . there were more mysteries in the world than a man could ever hope to understand.
Statistically, skinny women die younger than fat women. Why? Because fat women are killing them.
The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.
All major publishing houses have these big fat biographies sitting there, waiting for people to die. All you have to do is slap on the end and put in on the market. It's that kind of commoditization and completion of your life before you die - and this kind of imposition of a public idea of self that replaces the actual living self - that I find so frightening.
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!