Any writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.
And money can't buy everything. For example: poverty.
There's people in hell who want ice water.
Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
The only way I could finish a book and get a plot was just to keep making it longer until something happens.
The devil lives in a double-shot", Roman explains himself obscurely. "I got a great worm inside. Gnaws and gnaws. Every day I drown him and every day he gnaws. Help me drown the worm, fellas.