When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my age there was very little left to kill. It was good to be old, no matter what they said. It was reasonable that a man had to be at least 50 years old before he could write with anything like clarity.

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

SUICIDE. Like a light going on. In the darkness. That there is an out helps you stay in.

İNTİHAR. Aniden yanan bir ışık gibi. Karanlıkta. Çıkış yolu olduğunu bilmek içerde kalmayı kolaylaştırır.

I think a man can keep o drinking for centuries, he'll never die; especially wine or beer... I like drunkards, man, because drunkards, they come out of it, and they're sick and they spring back, they spring back and forth... if I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.

Why does a man destroy himself or what destroys him? I would have to judge that suicide is mostly the tool of the thinking man. The right to suicide should be the same as the right to love.

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I think a man can keep on drinking for centuries, he'll never die; especially wine or beer...I like drunkards, man, because drunkards, they come out of it, and they're sick and they spring back, they spring back and forth...If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.

One more drink and you're dead. This is no way to talk to a suicide head.