It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.

Something that never happens anywhere at any time.

There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.

I think I need a drink.' 'Almost everybody does only they don't know it.

Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.

We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting

I remembered my New Orleans days, living on two five-cent candy bars a day for weeks at a time in order to have leisure to write. But starvation, unfortunately, didn't improve art. It only hindered it. A man's soul was rooted in his stomach. A man could write much better after eating a porterhouse steak and drinking a pint of whiskey than he could ever write after eating a nickel candy bar. The myth of the starving artist was a hoax.