Robert Stone

I’ve been waiting my whole life to fuck up like this.

I've always remembered. This fellow said to me - if you think someones' doing you wrong, it's not for you to judge. Kill them first and then God can do the judging.

What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with yours, in a good cause. You're trying to take over his sensibility and deliver an experience that moves from mere information.

That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely.

It’s hard to stay away from religion when you mess with acid.

If you haven't fought for your life for something you want, you don't know what's life all about.

If you couldn't tell the difference between what hurt and what didn't, you had no business being alive. You can't have any good times if you can't tell.

The term [Americanization] invokes the transformation of the landscape into unnatural mechanical shapes, of night into day, of speed for its own sake, an irrational passion for novelty at the expense of quality, a worship of gimmickry.