The only thing worse for smoking than drinking is quitting drinking. Because then it's the only thing you can do.

You have friends who actually care about you and speak the language of the inner self. You have avoided them of late. Your soul is as disheveled as your apartment, and until you can clean it up a little you don't want to invite anyone inside.

It's the cynics who never get married.

I realized that I might not ever make it as a writer, that it might be because I wasn't good enough, or that it might be because the odds were just too long.

Add anchovies to almost anything, in moderation, and it will taste better.

He insisted on a single trade secret: that you had to survive, find some quiet, and work hard every day.

There is a shabby nobility in failing all by yourself.