“there is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy”

“You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.”

“nobody can save you butyourself.you will be put again and againinto nearly impossiblesituations.they will attempt again and againthrough subterfuge, guise andforceto make you submit, quit and/or die quietlyinside.nobody can save you butyourself”

“nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing.”

“Basically, that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my ass from the madhouse, from the streets, from myself.”

“nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.”

“I met Betty on the street. "I saw you with that bitch a while back. She's not your kind of woman.""None of them are.”