I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death.

Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again.

And what does the rain say at night in a small town, what does the rain have to say? Who walks beneath dripping melancholy branches listening to the rain? Who is there in the rain’s million-needled blurring splash, listening to the grave music of the rain at night, September rain, September rain, so dark and soft? Who is there listening to steady level roaring rain all around, brooding and listening and waiting, in the rain-washed, rain-twinkled dark of night?

The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view

Hell man, I know very well you didn't come to me only to want to become a writer, and after all what do I really know about it except that you've got to stick to it with the energy of a benny addict.

..and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didnt know who I was