A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.

Booze takes a lot of time and effort if you're going to do a good job with it.

All this, all of this love we're talking about, it would just be a memory. Maybe not even a memory. Am I wrong? Am I way off base? Because I want you to set me straight if you think I'm wrong. I want to know. I mean, I don't know anything, and I'm the first one to admit it.

She won't give him back his look.

It's strange. You never start out life with the intention of becoming a bankrupt or an alcoholic or a cheat and a thief. Or a liar.

I'm always learning something. Learning never ends.

You're...writing for other writers to an extent-the dead writers whose work you admire, as well as the living writers you like to read.