Literature is the history of the soul.
A writers job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.
My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.
I always intended to be light and open. I misjudged the American audience.
If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren't really there.
I hate to be fatalistic about it, but alcoholism, it's just in your genes. We had some of it in my family, and it just got me.