“No one gets out of this life alive.So leave a footprint of your choice.You are writing your epitaph.You are writing it now!Life is a process, not a goal.Live it now, or you will miss it!We have time to spend and no time to waste.”

“Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.”

“You live like this long enough, a life without chances, you lose your bearings. A life without danger. A life without the risk of Now. In any event, what do I need with Now? Now, I think, is overrated. Now hasn’t been working out so great for me. Now never has.”

“Write to Please Yourself.When You write to Please OthersYou end up Pleasing No one.”

“Life is a waste of time, and time is a waste of life. Get wasted all the time, and you'll have the time of your life!”

“There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into the streets is a writer who does not know the streets. . . when you leave your typewriter you leave your machine gun and the rats come pouring through.”

“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”