I'll be clickin' by your house about two forty-five, Sidewalk Sundae Strawberry Surprise.

I'll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.

Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you're dead

If you're a writer you know that the stories don't come to you, you have to go looking for them. The old men in the lobby: that's where the stories were.

Jesus Christ, this godamn rain, will someone put me on a train.

I worry about a lot of things, but I don’t worry about achievements. I worry primarily about whether there are nightclubs in Heaven.

There’s nothing more embarrassing than a person who tries to guess what the great American public would like, makes a compromise for the first time, and falls flat on his face… I would rather be a failure on my own terms than a success on someone else’s. That’s a difficult statement to live up to, but then I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.