It's hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don't want to write.

Liquor is one way out an’ death’s the other.

It's hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don't want to write.

And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that's stronger than this-kitchen-candle.

The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny.

I'm much more conscious of historical events since the '60s. In the '60s, I was insulated by my own addictions, my own lifestyle, from what was going on in the world. After I recovered I was amazed at certain people who had died. I hadn't noticed that they had gone. Not friends ... I'm talking about public figures who had passed away.

Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. --Blanche Dubois