Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing

I write right off the typer. I call it my "machinegun." I hit it hard, usually late at night while drinking wine and listening to classical music on the radio and smoking mangalore ganesh beedies.

Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become so obvious yourself.

there was something about that city, though it didn't let me feel guilty that I had no feeling for the things so many others needed. it let me alone.

There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on.

The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.

Something that never happens anywhere at any time.