When love becomes a command, Hatred can become a pleasure.
What’s genius? I don’t know but I do know that the difference between a madman and a professional is that a pro does as well as he can within what he has set out to do and a madman does exceptionally well at what he can’t help doing.
What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
What is your definition of a coward? A man who would think twice before fightng a lion with his bare hands. And what is your definition of a brave man? A man who doesn’t know what a lion is. Every man knows what a lion is. Every man assumes that he does. (The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn’t know what a lion is. He just thinks he does.)
What is your advice to young writers? Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.
What is your advice to older writers? If you’re still alive, you don’t need any advice.
What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don’t live up until their death.
What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman.
What a weary time those years were – to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.
We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
We know God is dead, they’ve told us, but listening to you I wasn’t sure.
Trying to be kind to others I often get my soul shredded into a kind of spiritual pasta.