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There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

Writers have to put up with this editor thing; it is ageless and eternal and wrong.

The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.

I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.

My writing is jagged and harsh, I want it to remain that way; I don't want it smoothed out.

You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the 'light' and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar.

The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you'll live 10 times longer than if you have 10. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever. It's truly ridiculous.

To not to have entirely wasted one's life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

I only type every third night. I have no plan. My mind is a blank. I sit down. The typewriter gives me things I don't even know I'm working on. It's a free lunch. A free dinner. I don't know how long it is going to continue, but so far there is nothing easier than writing.

When I worked on a magazine, I learned that there are many, many writers writing that can't write at all; and they keep on writing all the cliches and bromides and 1890 plots, and poems about Spring and poems about Love, and poems they think are modern because they are done in slang or staccato style, or written with all the 'i's' small.

I used to live on one candy bar a day - it cost a nickel. I always remember the candy bar was called Payday. That was my payday. And that candy bar tasted so good, at night I would take one bite, and it was so beautiful.

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.