The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.

I knew I was strong, and maybe like they said, "crazy." But I had this feeling inside of me that something real was there.

If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.

I had no Freedom. I had nothing.

Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important (physically) as excretion. A man can go seventy years without a piece of ass, but he can die in a week without a bowel movement.

Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer.

Meanwhile the 3 a.m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to sleep, and deserving that rest, if they could find it.