And if there is anybody out there who is crazy enough to want to become a writer, I'd say go ahead, spit in the eye of the sun, hit those keys, it's the best madness going, the centuries need help, the species cry for light and gamble and laughter. Give it to them. There are enough words for all of us.

the tigers have found me and I do not care.

I wasn't sleeping on the streets at night. Of course, there were a lot of good people sleeping in the streets. They weren't fools, they just didn't fit into the needed machinery of the moment. And those needs kept altering.

there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock

It’s when you hide things that you choke on them.

I didn't feel that way about it. I had been playing with death for some time. I can't say we were the best of friends but we were well acquainted.

I don't know about other people, but when I wake up in the morning and put my shoes on, I think, Jesus Christ, now what?