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

The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

I'll get back to the whores and the horses and the booze, while there's time.

The empty, the angry, the lonely, the tricked, we are all museums of fear.

The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little more off you, until there was nothing left. At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole goddamned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves.

Don’t do it. Don’t love me.