A man without a sense of purpose, even one whose bank accounts are stuffed with money, is always a small man.

Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it.

Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up

Rightly tired of the pain İ hear and feel, boss... where we's comin from or goin to or why... If İ could end it, İ would. But İ can't.

There is no such thing as a happy ending. I never met a single one to equal "Once upon a time.

There should be no telephone in your writing room, certainly no TV or videogames for you to fool around with. If there’s a window, draw the curtains or pull down the shades unless it looks out at a blank wall.

I didn't go to bars much. One drunken asshole was all I could handle and that was me. I wrote. I don't remember a lot of it.