People are unjust to anger - it can be enlivening and a lot of fun.

As for himself, however hateful life was, it was hateful in a home and not in the gutter. Many Americans hated their homes. The number of homeless in America couldn't touch the number of Americans who had homes and families and hated the whole thing.

You tasted it. Isn't that enough? Of what do you ever get more than a taste? That's all we're given in life, that's all we're given of life. A taste. There is no more.

The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you.

You don't want to repeat yourself for one. You don't want to fall into the clichés for another. And you don't want to be licentious really. You want to be descriptive, if you can be. And you're not setting out to arouse anybody.

A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.