If a writer stops observing, he is finished.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.

Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it.

Later he had seen the things that he could never think of and later still he had seen much worse.

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