and getting dressed we talk about what else there might be to do, but being together solves most of it, in fact, solves all of it

Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.

Writing is like going to bed with a beautiful woman and afterwards she gets up, goes to her purse and gives me a handful of money.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.

Basically, that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my ass from the madhouse, from the streets, from myself.