It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?

You have to live to really know things, my love

This is every writer's nightmare - the sudden breakdown of meaning in the language that sustains and supports us.

Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings.

Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.

His imagination was always more real than the reality of daily life.

The problem with being passionately in love ... is that it deprives you of too much sleep.