“I was only a few years away from becoming an overnight success.”

“Many millions of people have lost their lives while trying to save a few minutes.”

“They would sweep their poverty under the carpet if only they had one.”

“It was the essence of life to disbelieve in death for one’s self, to act as if life would continue forever. And life had to act also as if little issues were big ones. To take a realistic attitude toward life and death meant that one lapsed into unreality. Into insanity. It was ironic that the only way to keep one’s sanity was to ignore that one was in an insane world or to act as if the world were sane.”

“When you have plenty of knowledge that’s the moment when you get vulgar, irnoc and hypocritical.”

“sometimes when everything seems atits worstwhen all conspiresand gnawsand the hours, days, weeksyearsseem wasted – stretched there upon my bedin the darklooking upward at the ceilingi get what many will consider anobnoxious thought:it’s still nice to beBukowski.”

“The most dangerous irony is, people are angry with others because of their own incompetence.”

“People who didn’t need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn’t need people.”

“Cam’s wings were so bright they were almost blinding as they pulsed. “Holy Hell,” Callie whispered, blinking.”More or less,” Arriane said”

“What is your advice to young writers?” “Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.”

“And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done– done, see you!– under that sky there, every day.”

“Two wrongs don’t make a right, but don’t three lefts make a right? Two wrongs don’t make a right, but don’t two negatives make a positive?”