Beware Those Who Are ALWAYS READING BOOKS

When a writer is swayed with his fame and his fortune, you can float him down the river with the turds.

since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light

… and we are in bed together laughing and we don’t care about anything.

I think a man can keep on drinking for centuries, he'll never die; especially wine or beer...I like drunkards, man, because drunkards, they come out of it, and they're sick and they spring back, they spring back and forth...If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.

With me, my main vision for life was to avoid as many people as possible. The less people I saw the better I felt.

Potential," I said, "doesn't mean a thing. You've got to do it. Almost every baby in a crib has more potential than I have.