It will rain all this night and we will sleep transfixed by the dark water as our blood runs through our fragile life.

I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.

When you play the field selfishly everything works against you: one can’t insist on love or demand affection. you’re finally left with whatever you have been willing to give which often is: nothing.

God is a lonely place without steak.

It’s hard to drink when you dance. And it’s hard to dance when you drink.

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.

A dry period for me means perhaps going two or three nights without writing. I probably have dry periods but I'm not aware of them and I go on writing, only the writing probably isn't much good.