Nelson Algren on life

Nelson Algren was a good writer.  I had occasion to quote him this morning in the novel I'm writing.  This is the (I think true) version, from Walk on the Wild Side:   

“Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.”

That's a great quote, but it's not the way I first heard it.  Algren taught at the Iowa Writers Workshop a couple of years before I was there, and I'm told his oral version of the saying ended with "Never fuck a woman who's crazier than you are."  Which probably wouldn't have seen print in 1956.

Joe