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

Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there.

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

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

The young remember most deeply.... When we are old and failing, it is the memories of childhood which can be summoned most clearly.

Stupidity has a price and it always gets paid.

Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion