Cautiously, I allowed myself to feel good at times. I found moments of peace in cheap rooms just staring at the knobs of some dresser or listening to the rain in the dark. The less I needed the better I felt.

If you are going to try, go all the way or don't even start. If you follow it you will be alive with the gods. It is the only good fight there is.

Fiction is an improvement on life

to fight for each minute is to fight for what is possible within yourself, so that your life and your death will not be like theirs.

The park grass looked greener, the park benches looked better and the flowers were trying harder.

the psyche has been burned and left us senseless, the world has been darker than lights-out in a closet full of hungry bats, and the whiskey and wine entered our veins when blood was too weak to carry on

young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.