To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.

My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly mattered. What I objected to was to be denied the right to sit in a small room and starve and drink cheap wine and go crazy in my own way and at my own leisure.

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

you fall into the mirror, come through the other side staring at a lightbulb.

I walk into the kitchen, look at the typer down there on the floor. It's a dirty floor. It's a dirty typer that types dirty stories

Why do we embroider everything we say with special emphasis when all we really need to do is simply say what needs to he said? Of course the fact is that there is very little that needs to be said.