Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there.

When you're a child you're the center of everything. Everything happens for you. Other people? They're only ghosts furnished for you to talk to.

The craft of writing is the art of penetrating other minds with the figures that are in your own mind.

People like you to be something, preferably what they are.

Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches, nor is it a game for the cloistered elect, the tinhorn mendicants of low calorie despair.

People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all.

We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome.