If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.

Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don't give a damn.

Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter, run over by a car, and they'll spit on you.

There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer.

I could never accept life as it was, I could never gobble down all its poisons bu there were parts, tenuous magic parts open for the asking.

Don’t do it. Don’t love me.

The wisdom to quit is all we have left.