If you're going to try, go all the way. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind.

bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

there must be a way. surely there must be a way that we have not yet thought of. who put this brain inside of me? it cries it demands it says that there is a chance. it will not say "no.

I only want sweet peace and kindliness when I awaken -- but there's always some finger pointing, telling me some terrible deed I committed during the night. It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.

too often, the only escape is sleep

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