I like a lot of talk in a book and I don't like to have nobody tell me what the guy that's talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks.

I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction.

I'm back with my own kind of people here now, the bums and drinkers and no goods and it is a fine thing.

No one who is young is ever going to be old.

I nearly always write — just as I nearly always breathe.

I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.

I have thought that men and women should never come together except in bed. There is the only place where their natural hatred of each other is not so apparent.