Well, this is good for me, this is experience, I am here for a reason, these moments run into pages, the seamy side of life.

I write every morning. Two hours. Then I take a break and become my own secretary for a few hours. If I am "hot" I write in the afternoon and at night too.

One night I was sitting on the bed in my hotel room on Buker Hill, down in the middle of Los Angeles. It was an important night in my life, because I had to make a decision about the hotel. Either I paid up or I got out: that was what the note said, the note the landlady had put under my door. A great problem, deserving acute attention. I solved it by turning out the lights and going to bed.

Like my father, I am very impatient. I have a strong bullshit detector. I may finish one book in twenty that I have started.

Arturo Bandini: -What does happiness mean to you Camilla? Camilla: -That you can fall in love with whoever you want to, and not feel ashamed of it.

I have wanted women whose very shoes are worth all I have ever possessed.

Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche?