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Yes Yeswhen God created love he didn't help most when God created dogs He didn't help dogs when God created plants that was average when God created h...more

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

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So where do you go? Back to the bottle And back to a tiny room somewhere. And wait. And wait, and wait. That's all.

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Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.

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Ya got cigarettes?” she asks. “Yes,” I say,“I got cigarettes.” “Matches?” she asks.“Enough to burn Rome.” “Whiskey?”“Enough whiskey for a Mississippi ...more

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Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your bod...more

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There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started drinking.

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To me, nudity is a joke. I don't think nude people are very attractive at all. I like my women fully clothed. I like to imagine what might be under th...more

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I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.

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Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When ...more

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There was no sense to life, to the structure of things. D.H. Lawrence had known that. You needed love, but not the kind of love most people used and w...more

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What is your advice to young writers?” “Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.

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I needed a vacation. I needed 5 women. I needed to get the wax out of my ears. My car needed an oil change. I'd failed to file my damned income tax. O...more

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My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly mattered. What I objected to was to be denied the right ...more

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to whom it may concern: please phone me for appointments when you want to see me. I will not answer unsolicited knocks upon the door. I need time to d...more