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

I am this fiery snail crawling home.

I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.

That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.

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.

Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter, run over by a car, and they'll spit on you.

pain is absurd because it exists, nothing more.