First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library.

I write as a function. Without it I would fall ill and die. It's as much a part of one as the liver or intestine, and just about as glamorous.

They never pay the slaves enough so they can get free, just enough so they can stay alive and come back to work.

I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love.

I'm going to open another vottle. not a vottle, but a bottle. you open it and I'll drink it. and you try to write as much as I did without falling off of your chair.

I no longer want it all, just some comfort and some sex and some minor love.

If you can hit a guy once, you can hit him twice.