There is always somebody about to ruin your day, if not your life.

Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work. Think of how many times you put on your underwear in a lifetime. It was appalling, it was disgusting, it was stupid.

It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.

Life wore a man out, wore a man thin.Tomorrow would be a better day.

Hell was what you made it

Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work

I'm not dead yet, just in a state of rapid decay, who isn't?

I decided to stay in bed until noon. Maybe by then half the world would be dead and it would only be half as hard to take.

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

In this world of half-jobs and liars, I will prevail.

If you want to sustain excellence over a long time, you'd better come up with a system that works well. Anyone can sprint for a little while, but you can't sprint for forty years.

What is writing but an expression of my own life?

Facts are subversive

Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question.

I mean, a Mexican boy couldn't be anything else but an Indian. And why did you take the name of Quinn, they used to say to me. Hey, you're an Indian, so I played Indians.

Founded on faith in God, the United States has been blessed as no other nation.

When I was very young every grownup was a hero. It's been all downhill since then, and I have only two left.

I drew because words were too unpredictable. (5)