Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.

I'm killing time and it's dying hard.

There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.

The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.

The plants filled the place, a forest of them, with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men.

I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.

All language begins with speech, and the speech of common men at that, but when it develops to the point of becoming a literary medium it only looks like speech.