I have to return some videotapes

I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.

What do you do?' she asks, holding out the vest. 'What do you do?' 'What do you do?' she asks, her voice shaking. 'Don't ask me, please. Okay, Clay?' 'Why not?' She sits on the mattress after I get up. Muriel screams. 'Because... I don't know,' she sighs. I look at her and don't feel anything and walk out with my vest.

I'm into, oh murders and executions mostly. It depends.

He was simply someone who floated through our lives and didn't seem to care how flatly he perceived everyone or that he'd shared our secret failures with the world, showcasing the youthful indifference, the gleaming nihilism, glamorizing the horror of it all.

I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He's not crazy, it's just the litany of the mid-life crisis.

You learn to move on without the people you love.