Henry Miller said, "There was nothing I could do, that I could just as well not do."
I think that's actually a profoundly truthful statement.
Jack Kerouac, Henry Miller, Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Thomas Pynchon, Lord Byron, Thomas Wolfe, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Fernando Pessoa, Albert Camus, William Burroughs (senior and junior), Ernest Hemingway, Voltaire, Cervantes, Herbert Huncke, Andre Breton, Jean Cocteau, Arthur Rimbaud, Gus Lee, Lewis Carroll, Allen Ginsberg, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Goethe, Shakespeare, Sartre etc.