Isolation is a gift. Everything else is just a test of your endurance. You will be alone with the Gods. Your nights will flame with fire.

When women agree with me I always do the other thing.

Women were beyond me.They saw somethingdepraved.There was one waitressa little older thanI, she rather smiled,lingered when shebrought mycoffee.That was plenty for me, that wasenough.- Young in New Orleans.

Endurance is more important than truth because without endurance there can't be any truth. And truth means going to the end like you mean it. That way, death itself comes up short when it grabs.

All we do is sleep, and eat and lay around and make love. We're like slugs. Slug-love, I call it.

She slammed the door andwas gone.I looked at the closed doorand at the doorknoband strangelyI didn't feelalone.