If you can only remain pure in your stupidity, someday you may get a phone call from hell.

Don't wait for the good woman. She doesn't exist. There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd.

Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.

Lawyers, doctors, plumbers, they all made the money. Writers? Writers starved. Writers suicided. Writers went mad.

eleven months. now she's gone gone as they go.

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

Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try a poem or story or novel they become pretentious.