Find what you love and let it kill you.

Before my death I hope to obtain my life.

And there I was, 225 pounds, perpetually lost and confused, short legs, ape-like upper body, all chest, no neck, head too large, blurred eyes, hair uncombed, 6 feet of geek, waiting for her.

I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.

I am for the small man who has not forgotten, for the man who loves his beer and his women and his sunlight

Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.

There's nothing to stop a man from writing unless that man stops himself. If a man truly desires to write, then he will. Rejection and ridicule will only strengthen him. And the longer he is held back the stronger he will become, like a mass of rising water against a dam. There is no losing in writing, it will make your toes laugh as you sleep, it will make you stride like a tiger, it will fire the eye and put you face to face with death. You will die a fighter, you will be honored in hell. The luck of the word. Go with it, send it.