Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

by Eve Babitz

(When someone dies of heroin, like magic two or three close friends spring up in his place to pay God back by becoming junkies themselves. Perversity is a correlate in all of this.)

he was like an animal who’s too much of an animal to comprehend the inevitability of his own death, and that kind of person is always a comfort.