"Factotum" Quotes

I lay in bed and thought about all the people in all the beds I had been in and all the people I had been in beds with and I couldn’t take any of it back and I couldn’t stand any of it.

What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.

I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water.

I didn't like anything else. I just liked the bar. I liked the people in the bar. The bar was my occupation.

I didn't know what a writer was, but I knew what writing was: it was something you did alone in a room.

I had always loved to sleep... the sleep of the just... to be free of all the happiness and pain, free of all feeling.

I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by something deep down, something absolute.

I was happy about the whole thing until I saw my check. It was for $52. I put it in my pocket and went to a bar.

I could see the street and the people, and they were all the same, moving along the street like ants.

People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.