If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.

Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.

Did you ever have a sister? did you?

The only rule I have is to quit while it’s still hot. Never write yourself out. Always quit when it’s going good. Then it’s easier to take it up again. If you exhaust yourself, then you’ll get into a dead spell and you’ll have trouble with it.

The whiskey died away in time and was renewed and died again, but the street ran on. From that night the thousand streets ran as one street, with imperceptible corners and changes of scene.

I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.

Everything in Los Angeles is too large, too loud and usually banal in concept… The plastic asshole of the world.