M.attie

“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stonewritten. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”

“I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.”

“She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.”

“I thought you were sane," I said, "but you're
just as crazy as the rest of them.”

“one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid”

“One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad.”

“Words are loneliness.”

“Opinions are like orgasms… mine matters most and I really don’t care if you have one.”

“The real leader has no need to lead. He is content to point the way.”

“How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.”

“I think I am mad sometimes.”

“I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.”

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

“Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don't give a damn.”

“Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.”

“I think I need a drink.'
'Almost everybody does only they don't know it.”

“I will remember the kisses, our lips raw with love,
and how you gave me everything you had
and how I offered you what was left of me.”

“Don’t do it. Don’t love me.”

“I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.”