“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”

“when we were kids laying around the lawn on our bellies we often talked about how we'd like to die and we all agreed on the same thing; we'd all like to die fucking (although none of us had...”

“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”

“great books are the ones we need”

“not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.”

“I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.”

“writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all”

“I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.”