I’m the thing you most desire, you represent the thing I least desire, death. It’s just the opposite of love.

It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups in the intellectual gazettes.

The trouble with Jim was he looked at the world and could not look away. And when you never look away all your life, by the time you are thirteen you have done twenty years taking in the laundry of the world.

There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.

What should I do?" "Throw up in your typewriter every morning." "Yeah." "Clean up every noon.

I don't like being up high. It took me three days to get to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

You don't organize metaphors . . . you explode them.