I hope that death contains less than this.

I knew exactly what I was doing: I was doing nothing. because I knew there was nothing to do.

It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.

Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one.

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.

Lawyers, doctors, plumbers, they all made the money. Writers? Writers starved. Writers suicided. Writers went mad.

Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.