You were destroyed by what you befriended.

That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.

I was only photographing in words the reality of it all.

An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

If it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it.

we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning.

and now sometimes I'm interviewed, they want to hear about life and literature and I get drunk and hold up my cross-eyed, shot, runover de-tailed cat and I say,"look, look at this!" but they don't understand, they say something like,"you say you've been influenced by Celine?" no," I hold the cat up,"by what happens, by things like this, by this, by this!