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.

Basically, that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my ass from the madhouse, from the streets, from myself.

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

The hangover was brutal but he didn't mind. It told him he had been somewhere else, someplace good.

Sometimes a man doesn’t know what to do about things and sometimes it’s best to lie very still and try not to think at all about anything.

I wanted the whole world or nothing.

beware the average man the average woman beware their love, their love is average seeks average but there is genius in their hatred there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you to kill anybody not wanting solitude not understanding solitude they will attempt to destroy anything that differs from their own not being able to create art they will not understand art they will consider their failure as creators only as a failure of the world