It don't cost money to ask.

American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

But most important of all, the truth, that dangerous stuff, became beautiful and more precious.

I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody.

for how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them.

And when that crop grew, and was harvested, no man had crumbled a hot clod in his fingers and let the earth sift past his fingertips. No man had touched the seed, or lusted for the growth. Men ate what they had not raised, had no connection with the bread. The land bore under iron, and under iron gradually died; for it was not loved or hated, it had no prayers or curses.