The solitude of writing is a solitude without which writing could not be produced, or would crumble, drained bloodless by the search for something else to write.

I don't have general views about anything, except social injustice.

Very early in my life it was too late.

One must talk. That's how it is. One must.

Banality is sometimes striking.

I acquired that drinker's face before I drank. Drink only confirmed it. The space for it existed in me.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead -somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man -somewhere these, too, come together.