Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood.

If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library.

The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease & intimacy with the process of writing... It also offers you a constantly growing knowledge of what has been done and what hasn't, what is trite and what is fresh, what works and what lies there dying (or dead) on the page. The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

It was like drowning, only from the inside out.

Forced to define 'irrational subconscious,' I would say that it is a small padded room inside all of us, where the only furnishing is a small card table, and the only thing on the card table is a revolver loaded with flexible bullets.

Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.

Battles that last five minutes spawn legends that live a thousand years.