Quotes from book

Notes of a Dirty Old Man

“and if I have any advice to give to anybody it’s this: take up watercolor painting.”

“it was going to be all right.
at last.
for a while.”

“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 a simple way.”

“There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into the streets is a writer who does not know the streets… when you leave your typewriter you leave your machine gun and the rats come pouring through.”

“To be young is the only religion.”

“Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.”

“One more drink and you're dead. This is no way to talk to a suicide head.”

“Beautiful thoughts, and beautiful women never last.”

“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.”

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

“Live, shit, drinking and smoking should be the daily bread of all poets.”