“That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.”

I never met another man I’d rather be. And even if that’s a delusion, it’s a lucky one.

Nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.

I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.

Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.

Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.

The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.

It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.

Before my death I hope to obtain my life

Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

The less I needed, the better I felt.

It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun.

I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.

Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity

I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.

The club isn’t the best place to find a lover so the bar is where I go.

There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.

If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol, and caffeine off the market for six days, they’d have to bring out the tanks to control you.

Wouldn’t it be terrible if I quoted some reliable statistics which prove that more people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol.

Alcoholic: anybody who drinks more than I do.

I have been advised by the best medical authority, at my age, not to attempt to give up alcohol.

I don’t drink anymore, on the other hand I don’t drink any less either.