It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.
I will never be a leader of men, and neither do I want to be one, and neither do I want to be led. I thought: I want to lead only myself.
We can all of us be hurt, and no one is exclusively safe from worry and sadness.
The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.
Come with me into the world and reclaim your independence. You stand to gain so much, and riches are the least of it.
I thought, When a man is properly drunk it is as though he is an a room by himself--there is a physical, impenetrable separation between him and his fellows.
I sighed. ‘It doesn’t matter what we do. Money comes and goes. ’ I shook my head. ‘It doesn’t matter and you know it doesn’t.
No, in 1968 I still wanted to be a Pop Star, and be about the music. Now, I want to be just about the music.
We all lose sometimes. We fail to get what we want. Friends and loved ones leave. We make a decision we regret. We try our hardest and come up short. It's not the losing that defines us. It's how we lose. It's what we do afterward.
Whereas I will be with a wicked, handsome Rom who will keep me warm all night.
Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.