A little bit of this town goes a very long way.

Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant; it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want

There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.

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

There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won't be any winners.

Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.

I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the law: Kerouac, Miller, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey; I didn't have a gauge as to who was the worst outlaw. I just recognized allies: my people.