Don't wait for the good woman. She doesn't exist. There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd.

The park grass looked greener, the park benches looked better and the flowers were trying harder.

Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.

young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.

my greatest problem was stamps, envelopes, paper and wine, with the world on the edge of World War II.

When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble.

If you let them kill you, they will