One more drink and you're dead. This is no way to talk to a suicide head.

I've found out why men sign their names to their works- not that they created them but more than the others did not.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

Things will be far worse than they are now. And far better. I wait.

great books are the ones we need

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.

I write as a function. Without it I would fall ill and die. It's as much a part of one as the liver or intestine, and just about as glamorous.