terror finally becomes almost bearable but never quite terror creeps like a cat crawls like a cat across my mind

Death is not the problem; waiting around for it is.

Gradually I came to realize that my understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasure is concerned.

Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter, run over by a car, and they'll spit on you.

you fall into the mirror, come through the other side staring at a lightbulb.

writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all

Trouble and pain were what kept a man alive. Or trying to avoid trouble and pain. It was a full time job.