It is my rather subversive opinion that a writer's feelings of anonymity-obscurity are the second most valuable property on loan to him during his working years.

It's full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn if the football team loses, and all you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day, and everybody sticks together in these dirty little goddam cliques.

Nobody who's really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies

Then again you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I.'

I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.

I just hope that one day - preferably when we’re both blind drunk - we can talk about it.