Book: Western lands

There is one chance in a million, and that is still good biologic odds. Start from where you are almost looking down the barrel. Nine tenths of your activity is purposeless fidgeting around, lighting another cigarette... Nine tenths of deadwood weighing you down... House odds.
There is one chance in a million, but it is not bad for human beings. Start from the beginning: nine-tenths of your activity, senseless vanity, the jump-start of cigarettes, something like that... Nine-tenths of the ballast, which pulls you down... All the chances of the dealer.

Hollywood is able to razyal human soul to pieces. There is no human dream, which Hollywood would not have been able to relegate to the status of monstrous parody.

Someone not afraid to live in our time, just suffers from lack of imagination.