agony sometimes changes form but it never ceases for anybody.

If you can't write the next line, well, you're dead. The past doesn't matter.

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.

If you can only remain pure in your stupidity, someday you may get a phone call from hell.

That was the trouble with being a writer, that was the main trouble—leisure time, excessive leisure time. You had to wait around for the buildup until you could write and while you were waiting you went crazy, and while you were going crazy you drank and the more you drank the crazier you got.

It’s nice enough to make a man weep, but I don’t weep, do you?

well, i don't know about you but I'm going to try everything! War, women, travel, marriage, children, the works. [...]. I want to know about things, what makes them work!