I have two rules. One is, never trust a man who smokes a pipe. The other is, never trust a man with shiny shoes.

This is a world where everybody’s gotta do something. Ya know, somebody laid down this rule that everybody’s gotta do something, they gotta be something. You know, a dentist, a glider pilot, a narc, a janitor, a preacher, all that . . . Sometimes I just get tired of thinking of all the things that I don’t wanna do. All the things that I don’t wanna be. Places I don’t wanna go, like India, like getting my teeth cleaned. Save the whale, all that, I don’t understand that . . .

we had such tremendous fun and much agony together for some years

The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.

Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others.

when I am feeling low all i have to do is watch my cats and my courage returns