Cat hate reflects an ugly, stupid, loutish, bigoted spirit. There can be no compromise with this Ugly Spirit.

As an old junk pusher told me, 'Watch whose money you pick up.'

If I had my way we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.

As soon as you have a problem, it's insoluble. These things should never have been allowed to happen.

as soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.

I feel that opiates - I include opium and all its derivatives, such as morphine, heroin, pantopon, etc. - are quite useless for any sort of creative work, useful though they may be for routine work. Much of the hard physical work in the Far East is done by opium addicts.

A John is different from a sucker. When you're with a sucker you're on alert all the time. You give him nothing. A sucker is just to be taken but a John is different. You give him what he pays for. When you're with him you enjoy yourself and you want him to enjoy himself too.