the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy.

Dying in a a war never stopped wars from happening.

The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life to a function that doesn't interest you. This situation so repelled me that I was driven to drink, starvation, and mad females, simply as an alternative.

A dry period for me means perhaps going two or three nights without writing. I probably have dry periods but I'm not aware of them and I go on writing, only the writing probably isn't much good.

All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.

I give you soul. I give you wisdom and light and music and a bit of laughter. Also, I am the world's greatest horseplayer.

I am for the small man who has not forgotten, for the man who loves his beer and his women and his sunlight