You take off your clothes and you're in bed with somebody, and that is indeed where whatever you've concealed, your particularity, whatever it may be, however encrypted, is going to be found out, and that's what all the shyness is all about and what everybody fears.

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

A life of writing books is a trying adventure in which you cannot find out where you are unless you lose your way.

Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. the illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on. What else could? As pathological phenomena go, it doesn't completely wreck your life.

It's best to give while your hand is still warm.

I am the Raskolnikov of jerking off – the sticky evidence is everywhere!

For a pure sense of being tumultuously alive, you can't beat the nasty side of existence.