I went home each night dizzy and sick. He was murdering me with the sound of his voice.

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

the sea is made of blood

If you are going to try, go all the way or don't even start. If you follow it you will be alive with the gods. It is the only good fight there is.

I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.

There were always men looking for jobs in America. There were always all these usable bodies. And I wanted to be a writer. Almost everybody was a writer. Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer. Of those fifty guys in the room, probably fifteen of them thought they were writers. Almost everybody used words and could write them down, i.e., almost everybody could be a writer. But most men, fortunately, aren't writers, or even cab drivers, and some men - many men - unfortunately aren't anything.

If it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it.