great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal. if you read this after I am dead it means I made it.

With me, my main vision for life was to avoid as many people as possible. The less people I saw the better I felt.

I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.

a good book can make an almost impossible existence, liveable ( from 'the luck of the word' )

I write right off the typer. I call it my "machinegun." I hit it hard, usually late at night while drinking wine and listening to classical music on the radio and smoking mangalore ganesh beedies.

I think I need a drink.' 'Almost everybody does only they don't know it.

There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on.