“They build their own Hells.”

“Hell! I’m glad I did it. It’s going to be a change. Icall this life!”

“The smog was heavy, my eyes were weeping from it, the sun was hot, the air stank, a regular hell is L.A.”

“If you own a rug you own too much.”

“I'd sleep and forget it; I had my own life, my own sad and ragged life forever.”

“Something that you feel will find its own form.”

“Hell man, I know very well you didn't come to me only to want to become a writer, and after all what do I really know about it except that you've got to stick to it with the energy of a benny addict.”