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.

You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it.

News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens.

if you think they didn't go crazy in tiny rooms just like you're doing now without women without food without hope then you're not ready.

A spark can set a whole forest on fire. Just a spark. Save it.

there is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy

But my whole life has been a matter of fighting for one simple hour to do what I want to do. There was always something getting in the way of my getting to myself.