I kept telling myself that all the women in the world weren´t whores, just mine.

Writing is something that you don't know how to do. You sit down and it's something that happens, or it may not happen. So, how can you teach anybody how to write? It's beyond me, because you yourself don't even know if you're going to be able to. I'm always worried, well, you know, every time I go upstairs with my wine bottle. Sometimes I'll sit at that typewriter for fifteen minutes, you know. I don't go up there to write. The typewriter's up there. If it doesn't start moving, I say, well this could be the night that I hit the dust.

Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.

young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.

It was like a church in there as only the truly lost sit in bars on Tuesday mornings at 8:00 a.m.

I think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just cats and rain, rain and cats, very nice, good night.

there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock