"A good writer is not, as it is sometimes thought, a man who has an idea, but one who is possessed by an idea."

"I never felt that I had been a part of anything, or that I had belonged anywhere."

"I left my heart in San Francisco. No, I left it in a bar."

"I wish I could have found another way to live, but I couldn't. I had to write."

"I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens."