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

It was always a pleasure to write. I can never think of a time when I just hacked something out to fulfil a contract or meet a deadline. I might have hacked things out, but it was always stuff I loved.

Of course when you were running with the bottom dogs, what you mostly saw were paws, claws, and assholes.

Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out.

And I wonder if there is really any point to what I'm doing, or what I'm supposed to make of a world where a man can get rich playing "let's pretend

Without story books is like a person with no soul.

There are things of such darkness and horror—just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty—that they will not fit through the puny human doors of perception.