You wouldn't believe it. It's like a wonderful nightmare.'Sure,' I said. 'I'd believe anything. Including nightmares.' 'What's the matter? Feel low?'Low as hell.

I knew how severe I had been and how bad things had been. The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one who poverty bothers.

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast - talk them or write them down.

If you had stars inside your brain cells, you'd probably understand what I am talking about.

It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I'm not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.' She was crying. I comforted her and she stopped crying. But outside it kept on raining.

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in shockproof shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.