"I was given the job of milking the cows, finally, and it got me up earlier than anybody. But it was kind of nice, pul…"

"Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and eight times out of nine I'll show you a man wi…"

"An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in…"

"If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence."

"I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of the dead, cities of the dead: men without eyes, men without voices; men …"

"It's 4:30 in the morning, it's always 4:30 in the morning."

"No shortcuts, with me as with life."

"Van Gogh writing his brother for paints Hemingway testing his shotgun Celine going broke as a doctor of medicine the …"

"I've never met another man I'd rather be."

"The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are nea…"