I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing," the old man said. "They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as we are and would understand.

You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafTs.

Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.

Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.

The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.

To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don't let it.

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.