some people never go crazy.me, sometimes I’ll lie down behind the couchfor 3 or 4 days.they’ll find me there.it’s Cherub, they’ll say, andthey pour wine down my throatrub my chestsprinkle…
Either peace or happiness, let it enfold you when I was a young man I felt these things were dumb, unsophisticated. I had bad blood, a twisted mind, a precarious…
washed-up, on shore, the old yellow notebook out again I write from the bed as I did last year. will see the doctor, Monday. “yes, doctor, weak legs, vertigo, head- aches and my back hurts.” “are you drinking?” he…
the history of melancholiaincludes all of us. me, I writhe in dirty sheetswhile staring at blue wallsand nothing. I have gotten so used to melancholiathat I greet it like an…
we are always askedto understand the other person’sviewpointno matter howout-datedfoolish orobnoxious.one is askedto viewtheir total errortheir life-wastewithkindliness,especially if they areaged.but age is the total ofour doing.they have agedbadlybecause they havelivedout…
if you’re going to try, go all theway.otherwise, don’t even start. if you’re going to try, go all theway. this could mean losing girlfriends,wives, relatives, jobs andmaybe your mind. go…
there are worse things thanbeing alonebut it often takes decadesto realize thisand most oftenwhen you doit’s too lateand there’s nothing worsethantoo late.
style is the answer to everything —a fresh way to approach a dull or adangerous thing.to do a dull thing with styleis preferable to doing a dangerous thingwithout it. Joan…
against the wall, the firing squad ready.then he got a reprieve.suppose they had shot Dostoevsky?before he wrote all that?I suppose it wouldn’t havematterednot directly.there are billions of people who havenever…