Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.

One more drink and you're dead. This is no way to talk to a suicide head.

I don't carry notebooks and I don't consciously store ideas. I try not to think that I am a writer and I am pretty good at doing that. I don't like writers, but then I don't like insurance salesmen either.

Love is a horse with a broken leg trying to stand while 45,000 people watch.

When Ginsburg is at the top of his game you might as well put down your toys and listen.

and love was lightning and remembrance

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart