He asked, "what makes a man a writer?" "well," I said, "it's simple, it's either you get it down on paper or you jump off a bridge. writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers." "are you desperate?" "I don't know.

Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.

not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.

I've found out why men sign their names to their works- not that they created them but more than the others did not.

If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.

I'm going, she said. I love you but you're crazy, you're doomed.

There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.