Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.

it is all ash and dry leaves and grief gone like an ocean liner.

The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even during the day with covers pulled up to my chin. It was good in there, nothing ever occurred in there, no people, nothing.

since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light

my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.

There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into the streets is a writer who does not know the streets. . . when you leave your typewriter you leave your machine gun and the rats come pouring through.

there is enough treachery , hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day