You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

No one individual can tell the truth.

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

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done. The writer's only responsibility is to his art.

Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.

I knew that nobody but a luckless man could ever need a doctor in the face of a cyclone.