I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt but I was wrong.

Sometimes I feel so- I don’t know - lonely. The kind of helpless feeling when everything you’re used to has been ripped away. Like there’s no more gravity, and I’m left to drift in outer space with no idea where I’m going’ Like a little lost Sputnik?’ I guess so.

A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.

I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz bar. There was not enough time to write and I didn't know how to write novels. Therefore, I made written collages of aphorisms and rags.

I happen to like the strange ones. People who look normal and leads normal lives - they're the ones you have to watch out for.

Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.

I'm the kind of person who has to totally commit to whatever I do.