The spiritual life becomes very simple when you're sick.
The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.
Every writer is a writer of the generation before.
I rail against writers who talk about the loneliness of it all — what do they want, a crowd looking over their typewriters? Or those who talk about having to stare at a blank page — do they want someone to write on it?
Suicide is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets.
The only reason I didn't kill myself after I read the reviews of my first book was because we have two rivers in New York and I couldn't decide which one to jumo into.