In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell ….

The condition that is most disagreeable in your life becomes the most useful one. You know, I feel the same way about the U.S. Army. It was absolutel….

The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war..

What's not realized about good novelists is that they're as competitive as good athletes. They study each other - where the other person is good and ….

One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being, one….

I don't trust compliments. I've been getting them for years. Sometimes I deserve them, sometimes I didn't. But generally when people give you complim….

Growth is a greater mystery than death. All of us can understand failure, we all contain failure and death within us, but not even the successful man….

We are close to dead. There are faces and bodies like gorged maggots on the dance floor, on the highway, in the city, in the stadium; they are a host….

You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant..

I always start a book for money. If you're married five times you have to..

There is a no man's land between sex and love, and it alters in the night..

Great sex is apocalyptic. There is no such thing as great sex unless you have an apocalyptic moment..

I don't want to retire. I'm not that good at crossword puzzles.

Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic..

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment..

Bright was the light of my last martini on my moral horizon.

I am not here only so that the blind might see, but to teach those who thought they could see that they are blind.

Part of living, part of becoming a wise man or a wise woman, is to get to that point where you can have a friend for whom you are genuinely happy whe….

People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore cripple….

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor..

Love was love, one could find it with anyone, one could find it anywhere. It was just that you could never keep it. Not unless you were ready to die ….