Chris

“I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.”
― Ayn Rand

“...you can't write well with only the nice parts of your character, and only about nice things. And I don't want even to try anymore. I want to use everything, including hate and envy and lust and fear.”
― Alison Lurie, Real People

“the music was always in the background, like music at a church service; it was something to depend upon.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, High Lonesome: Selected Stories, 1966-2006

“In all this welter of women I still hadn't got one for myself, not that I was trying too hard, but sometimes I felt lonely to see everybody paired off and having a good time and all I did was curl up in my sleeping bag in the rosebushes and sigh and say bah. For me it was just red wine in my mouth and a pile of firewood”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums