So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.

One of the advantages of being dead, I guess, is that somebody else can edit all this.

Ah, that we lack the courage of our romantic convictions; and thereby miss the wine of life, forgoing the very thing that makes living worthwhile.

The thing that was important to me about Hemingway at the time was that Hemingway taught me that you could be a writer and get away with it.

I'm not a liberal, by the way.I believe I have every right to have guns. I just bought another huge weapon. A lot of people shouldn't own guns. I should. I have a safety record. Guns are a lot of fun out here.

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