I had no Freedom. I had nothing.

I would give anything for a female's hand on me tonight. they soften a man and then leave him listening to the rain.

A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.

Don’t do it. Don’t love me.

I seldom know what I'm going to write when I sit down. There isn't much agony and sweat of the human spirit involved in doing it. The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult.

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

I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.