Don't ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out.

Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.

When I'm drinking around people, I tend to get silly or pugnacious or wild, which can cause problems.

It will rain all this night and we will sleep transfixed by the dark water as our blood runs through our fragile life.

Life's as kind as you let it be.

Capitalism has survived communism. Now, it eats away at itself.

Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.