if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it.

When a writer is swayed with his fame and his fortune, you can float him down the river with the turds.

The human heart, as of course we all know is essentially good

and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical sense and are not easy to fool with laughter

I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day and bought huge quantities. I could feel them wondering why I wasn't dead yet and it made me uncomfortable. They probably weren't thinking any such thing, but then a man gets paranoid when he has 300 hangovers a year.

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.

why don't we go back out there and tell them what happened? because nothing happened except that everybody has been driven insane and stupid by life. in this society there are only two things that count: don't be caught without money and don't get caught high on any kind of high. (Night Streets of Madness)