You can’t play city rules when you live in a jungle.

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and - in spite of True Romance magazines - we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way.

Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise.

When you write for a living and you can't do anything else, you know that sooner or later that the deadline is going to come screaming down on you like a goddamn banshee. There's no avoiding it...So one day you just don't appear at the El Adobe bar anymore; you shut the door, paint the windows black, rent an electric typewriter and become the monster you always were - the writer.

The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as a Heisman Trophy winner.

I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.