The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it

your letters got sadder. your lovers betrayed you. kid, I wrote back, all lovers betray. it didn't help. you said you had a crying bench and it was by a bridge and the bridge was over the river and you sat on the crying bench every night and wept for the lovers who had hurt and forgotten you.

Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer.

Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important (physically) as excretion. A man can go seventy years without a piece of ass, but he can die in a week without a bowel movement.

I wanted the whole world or nothing.

nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing.

nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.