there is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy

Writers are nothing but beggars with a good line.

There's nothing to stop a man from writing unless that man stops himself. If a man truly desires to write, then he will. Rejection and ridicule will only strengthen him. And the longer he is held back the stronger he will become, like a mass of rising water against a dam. There is no losing in writing, it will make your toes laugh as you sleep, it will make you stride like a tiger, it will fire the eye and put you face to face with death. You will die a fighter, you will be honored in hell. The luck of the word. Go with it, send it.

I had no Freedom. I had nothing.

"Baby," I said. "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me."

i am going to start selling air in dark orange bags marked: moon-blooms

Banion wondered which was worse - being sodomized by aliens, or having to sit through two hours of Charles Ives.