I am not a snob; it is simply that I am not interested with what most people have to say, or what they want to do — mostly with my time.

people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an Academy Award means that you don't stink quite as much as your cousin.

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

I was an Agnostic. Agnostics didn't have much to argue about.

God knows I am not too hippy. Perhaps because I am too much around the hip and I fear fads for, like anybody else, I like something that tends to last.

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.

I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.