“There is a time to stop reading, there is a time to STOP trying to WRITE, there is a time to kick the whole bloated sensation of ART out on its whore-ass.”

“Sometimes you have to take the whole concept of Art and throw it out on its whore ass.”

“There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.”

“Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.”

“I remembered my New Orleans days, living on two five-cent candy bars a day for weeks at a time in order to have leisure to write. But starvation, unfortunately, didn't improve art. It only hindered it. A man's soul was rooted in his stomach. A man could write much better after eating a porterhouse steak and drinking a pint of whiskey than he could ever write after eating a nickel candy bar. The myth of the starving artist was a hoax.”

“Trouble and pain were what kept a man alive. Or trying to avoid trouble and pain. It was a full time job.”

“If there's anything worse than a whore it's a bore.”