Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others.

If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.

They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.

There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into the streets is a writer who does not know the streets. . . when you leave your typewriter you leave your machine gun and the rats come pouring through.

Find what you love and let it kill you.

Love is a horse with a broken leg trying to stand while 45,000 people watch.

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.