If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.

Sometimes I aint so sho who's got ere a right to say when a man is crazy and when he aint. Sometimes I think it aint none of us pure crazy and aint none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-way. It's like it aint so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.

If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.

It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.

Pouring out liquor is like burning books.

She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.

...and you don't even have to sleep alone, you don't even have to sleep at all; and so, all you have to do is show the stick to the dog now and then and say, 'Thank God for nothing.'