Humanity, you never had it from the beginning." That was my motto.

sometimes I hate you," she said.

A man needed somebody. There wasn't anybody around, so you had to make up somebody, make him up to be like a man should be. It wasn't make-believe or cheating. The other way was make-believe and cheating: living your life without a man like him around.

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.

I've learned to feel good when I feel good. it's better to be driven around in a red porsche than to own one. the luck of the fool is inviolate.

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.

If I'm an ass, I should say so. If I don't, somebody else will. If I say it first, that disarms them.