and now sometimes I'm interviewed, they want to hear about life and literature and I get drunk and hold up my cross-eyed, shot, runover de-tailed cat and I say,"look, look at this!" but they don't understand, they say something like,"you say you've been influenced by Celine?" no," I hold the cat up,"by what happens, by things like this, by this, by this!

Long before I became 'rich and famous' I just sat round drinking wine and staring at the walls.

it's good to have things done with when they don't work it's also good not to hate or even forget the person you've failed with.

But my whole life has been a matter of fighting for one simple hour to do what I want to do. There was always something getting in the way of my getting to myself.

It is possible to be truly mad and to still exist upon scraps of life.

Keep your money in your pocket. Or bet it on a good horse.

I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women.