there are policemen in the street and angels in the clouds

Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.

There's nothing like privacy. You know, I like people. It's nice that they might like my books and all that...but I'm not the book, see? I'm the guy who wrote it, but I don't want them to come up and throw roses on me or anything. I want them to let me breathe.

like the fox I run with the hunted and if I’m not the happiest man on earth I’m surely the luckiest man alive.

I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.

Each man's hell is in a different place: mine is just up and behind my ruined face.

I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.