The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd.

I had decided against religion a couple of years back. If it were true, it made fools out of people, or it drew fools. And if it weren't true, the fools were all the more foolish. What I need is a good doctor, I thought. You either lived or died.

Keep your money in your pocket. Or bet it on a good horse.

I think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just cats and rain, rain and cats, very nice, good night.

That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.

I broke that town in half like a wooden match.

I got up and walked back to my roominghouse. The moonlight was bright. My footsteps echoed in the empty street and it sounded as if somebody was following me, I looked around. I was mistaken. I was quite alone.