“It's four in the morning, the end of december I'm writing you now just to see if you're better.”

“If you're here for four more years or four more weeks, you're here right now. I think when you're somewhere, you ought to be there. It's not about how long you stay in a place, it's about what you do while you're there, and when you go, is that place any better for your having been there?”

“Miles, it's only morning and you're already drunk.""No, I'm not," I weakly protested. "I'm just thirsty.”

“...now when I'm writing it's already tomorrow and I'm afraid of getting to the end of yesterday. As long as I go on writing, yesterday is today and we are still together.”

“I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning. ”

“Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It's a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write.”