If you can change style, why stick to one style? Style is a vanity because it gives you product identification.

I don't want to retire. I'm not that good at crossword puzzles

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood.

The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.

One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being, one becomes aware of the enormous apparatus of nothingness - the hum of a hi-fi set, the emptiness of a pointless interruption, one becomes aware of the war between each of us, how the nothingness in each of us seeks to attack the being of others, how our being in turn is attacked by the nothingness in others.

Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day.