[Y]outh is hardly human: it can't be, for the young never believe they will die...especially would they never believe that death comes, and often, in forms other than the natural one.

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

When I am writing, I try to do it five hours a day but I spend about two of those just fooling around.

There's something really the matter with most people who wear tattoos. There's at least some terrible story. I know from experience that there's always something terribly flawed about people who are tattooed, above some little something that Johnny had done in the Navy, even though that's a bad sign...It's terrible. Psychologically it's crazy. Most people who are tattooed, it's the sign of some feeling of inferiority, they're trying to establish some macho identification for themselves.

Most people don't find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don't even know they have great talent.

I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does they might as well be dead.

I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.