the tigers have found me and I do not care.
I've never met another man I'd rather be.
and I laugh, I can still laugh, who can't laugh when the whole thing is so ridiculous that only the insane, the clowns, the half-wits, the cheaters, the whores, the horseplayers, the bankrobbers, the poets ... are interesting?
The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult.
It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.
Your writing", she said to me, "it's so raw. It's like a sledgehammer, and yet it has humor and tenderness. . . .