"Without trying to get too self-indulgent, there's a fine line between making something that's soundtracky and cinematic, or making it sound like a bad 70s prog-rock record."

“Twitter? No, I'd rather use phone and texts.”

“Sometimes when you do things right, there's no results.”

“Man's own form in space - his body - was a private prison; and that it was because of this imprisoning misery - because he was hungry and overworked and went to a horrid place called home late at night in the rain, and his bones ached and his head was heavy.”

“When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken.”

“That 'writers write' is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant. Writers phone. Writers sleep. I have met very few writers who write at all.”

Source : Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.30, New York Review of Books

“Don't wear fur! Did you know, a single fur coat takes fifteen trees, just for the protest signs?”

“I admire bull riders for their passion and the uniqueness each one of them has.”

“I felt his hot tears and the loneliness of man and the sweetness of all men and the aching haunting beauty of the living”

Source : John Fante (1952). “Full of life”