You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.

A man does not exist until he is drunk.

I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds.

The best writing is certainly when you are in love

Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke that I was not happy.