All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.

dogs and angels are not very far apart

I have no time for things that have no soul.

my hands dead my heart dead silence adagio of rocks the world ablaze that's the best for me.

Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one.

I write right off the typer. I call it my "machinegun." I hit it hard, usually late at night while drinking wine and listening to classical music on the radio and smoking mangalore ganesh beedies.

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