If I stop writing I am dead. And that's the only way I'll stop: dead.
To be young is the only religion.
we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning.
To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your wits, can’t sit still, move, or even go decently insane.
If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.
When a writer is swayed with his fame and his fortune, you can float him down the river with the turds.