Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

What? You’d dare drink right after getting out of jail for intoxication?” That’s when you need a drink the most.

there is moss on the walls and the stain of thought and failure and waiting

It’s not so much that nothing means anything but more that it keeps meaning nothing. there’s no release, just gurus and self- appointed gods and hucksters. the more people say, the less there is to say. even the best books are dry sawdust.

take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning

Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.

When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.