Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.

[To seagulls] Would you lot just shut up! You’re rats with wings! – Nigel

Life and death, energy and peace, if i stop today it was still worth it. Even the terrible mistakes, that I have made and would have unmade if I could. The pains that have burned me and scarred my soul, it was worth it for having been allowed to walk where I’ve walked. Which was to hell on earth, heaven on earth, back again, into, under, far in between, through it, in it and above…

Gia Marie Carangi 1960-1986

I chose Tennessee because I thought they’d give me an opportunity to play.

I don’t really know pitchers.

When you look at the calibre of players in the England squad and their ability, why should we go into the tournament fearing anyone?

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

Bella Flores: Goodnight Scott.