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!

Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.

He had long nostril hairs, powerfully intimidating, like an unscheduled nightmare.

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.

my greatest problem was stamps, envelopes, paper and wine, with the world on the edge of World War II.

It was like a church in there as only the truly lost sit in bars on Tuesday mornings at 8:00 a.m.

Writers are nothing but beggars with a good line.