There is no hurry. Time means nothing to you.

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

Things will be far worse than they are now. And far better. I wait.

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

Daddy,' my mother asked, 'aren’t we going to run out of gas?' No there’s plenty of god-damned gas.' Where are we going?' I’m going to get some god-damed oranges!

That was the trouble with being a writer, that was the main trouble—leisure time, excessive leisure time. You had to wait around for the buildup until you could write and while you were waiting you went crazy, and while you were going crazy you drank and the more you drank the crazier you got.

It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun