Shoot, boy, the country's just fulla folks what knows everything, and don't understand nothing, just fullofem.

The feeble-minded, the neurotic, the criminal, perhaps, also, the artist, have unpredictability and perverted innocence in common.

I guess if you're that thin and that small you don't need to take up too much space or breathe that much air. You just keep on going.

A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet.

It’s better to look at the sky than live there

I also write the last paragraph or page of a story first. That way I always know what I'm working towards.

Some prisons don't allow guitar because the strings can be detached and used as weapons.