If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

I seldom know what I'm going to write when I sit down. There isn't much agony and sweat of the human spirit involved in doing it. The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult.

there was something about that city, though it didn't let me feel guilty that I had no feeling for the things so many others needed. it let me alone.

If you let them kill you, they will

You don't go on "probably" when love and guns are in hand.

I walk into the kitchen, look at the typer down there on the floor. It's a dirty floor. It's a dirty typer that types dirty stories

well, i don't know about you but I'm going to try everything! War, women, travel, marriage, children, the works. [...]. I want to know about things, what makes them work!