There's no deodorant for desperation.

A waft of sweet hash drifted by, and I wanted to float after it like Wimpy levitating at the scent of a hamburger.

I need - and occasionally love - to write for the same reasons I always did: hard as writing is, it's generally easier than life.

All of us, at some point in life, choose our cliché.

It's not like I was an alkie or anything. Alcohol is for cleaning needles

I don't really know how to do much else besides write.

I kept getting high to kill my shame at the fact that I kept getting high.

To me, God is like this happy bus driver.

In my family, misery didn't just love company, it wanted hostages.

I've always wanted to be a guy with a rec room.

You need an entire drama to construct your life around to avoid living it.

Was he trying to rescue her?She fought not to roll her eyes. Men.

Sometimes you hurt people for no reason. Just because you can.

Pretending to him that she felt something would be easy. Pretending to herself that she didn't? That was a whole other story.

Losers have goals. Winners have systems.

I don’t think writers compete, I think they’re all doing separate things in their own style.

My left hand is my thinking hand (image), my right hand my doing hand (sequence).

I haven't killed anybody all day. Help me keep it that way.

One of the most helpful things that any body can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth - or the first. These two are the most expensive eighths in the world.

I know what I like; if you go to my closet, I have at least four of everything.

It's very hard for Europe, the US and Russia to have much influence on the growing problems elsewhere in the world unless we have our own backyard in a more stable and cooperative atmosphere.