I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease; the happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man.

The party don't stop till the cops come knockin'