I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future.

I take much pleasure in being alone but there is also a strange warm grace in not being alone.

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others.

It's just that the grape has me down.

yes, Wagner and the storm intermix with the wine as nights like this run up my wrists and up into my head and back down into the gut

... to die on a kitchen floor at 7 o'clock in the morning while other people are frying eggs is not so rough unless it happens to you.

He asked, "what makes a man a writer?" "well," I said, "it's simple, it's either you get it down on paper or you jump off a bridge. writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers." "are you desperate?" "I don't know.