Booze and tobacco and lots of sex. It keeps a lad young.

People don't get to change things. Things change people once in a while, but people don't change things.

Something I learned long ago. It is not necessary to know what a person is afraid of. It is enough to know the person is afraid.

Everybody's weird, fundamentally everybody is a snap. Sometimes it's a sexual thing and sometimes it's a different kind of weirdness, but one way or another everybody's nuts.

When you get older, keeping the private stuff private seems less important.

Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.

One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I'm going to do my five or 10 pages no matter what, and that I can always tear them up the following morning if I want. I'll have lost nothing-writing and tearing up five pages would leave me no further behind than if I took the day off.