You're never gonna outwrite the movement of the white clouds and the blue sky. You're never going to. There are times when I try to write beautifully….

The main event is freedom. I often wonder if I had the complete freedom to not have to write, if I would write. That's the one mystery that I hope I ….

The things I wanted to be when I was a kid were an archeologist, because of dinosaur bones; a garbage man, because they got to ride on the side of th….

Joe Bonomo has written a fine book: a book not only about a band or times passed, but also about the rare virtue of endurance..

I think the tendency with parents is to make your kid not unlike the next kid but to overprotect and say, "My way's better than whatever you've got i….

I don't have a college degree..

My father, God bless him, thought it was such an impossible desire to be able to make a living the way I do. I was destined to go into the bar busine….

The appeal for drugs has dwindled. Except for actual opium. If I could get real opium, I'd stir it in my hot coffee every morning. People keep giving….

For years, I never really pondered how I came to be a writer from where I came from..

How do I start writing a book? I sit there, I come up with an opening line, and then I go little by little. I'll wonder, Well, what's coming? And tha….

You got guys that are so old, you see them eating lunch, the drool's just coming from their mouth, and they're sending around memos about 10 percent ….

People think they're gonna make a living off poetry. Ten years ago, maybe a couple of people did. Right now, no one, I don't think..

They say nobody has the attention span to read great books early in life. If I start to read something good, I'll look and it's 86 pages already. Att….

People speaking into handheld devices while they walk down the street and saying to the device, "I'm walking down the street now." People are enslave….

I've gone more than 40 years without having to use an alarm clock or go to an office. At this point, I don't think I'd be capable of not writing. I d….

I wanted to just get a job so I could have enough money for my own apartment and be able to get drunk. And I did. Back then, on $125, you could do th….

Johnny Depp is, to me, a rare kindred spirit with like sensibilities, who has escaped the beast. He's probably one of the few people that have surviv….

The difference of human being behind the guy on the page is in writing, I'm no longer conscious of personal repercussions because for that moment the….

The thing is, the more you fear death, the more you die. So it really doesn't pay off. It's a fear of the dark. Like any experience in life, you wond….

My most recent novel didn't start out scaring me, but as I got deeper into writing it, it scared me. It's not so much where the story's going. It's w….

The older you get, the more you live with ghosts..