"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."

"All good books are alike in that if you have read one carefully you have to read it again."

"The rain came down, sluicing the blood from the cobblestones, and the day was clean and washed."

"I love sleep. My life has a tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"

"Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you are a lucky man to remember it."