It’s never quite right, all the things we are taught, all the loves we chase, all the deaths we die, all the lives we live.

Some lose all mind and become soul,insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. some lose both and become accepted

Daddy,' my mother asked, 'aren’t we going to run out of gas?' No there’s plenty of god-damned gas.' Where are we going?' I’m going to get some god-damed oranges!

stay with the beer. beer is continuous blood. a continuous lover.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

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

American women drove hard bargains and the ended up looking the worst for it. The few natural American women left were mostly in Texas and Louisiana.