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

take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning

Somebody at one of these places asked me: "What do you do? How do you write, create?" You don't, I told them. You "don't try". That's very important: not to try, either for Cadillacs, creation or immortality. You wait, and if nothing happens, you wait some more. It's like a bug high on the wall. You wait for it to come to you. When it gets close enough you reach out, slap out and kill it. Or if you like it's looks, you make a pet out of it.

Love breaks my bones and I laugh

Gradually I came to realize that my understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasure is concerned.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

It was like a church in there as only the truly lost sit in bars on Tuesday mornings at 8:00 a.m.