Hey, Hank, I notice all the women around your place lately ... good looking stuff; you're doing all right." "Sam," I say, "that's not true; I am one of God's most lonely men.

Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life.

Beware Those Who Are ALWAYS READING BOOKS

our bones like stems into the sky will forever cry victory

The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn't know what a lion is. He just thinks he does.

Lawyers, doctors, plumbers, they all made the money. Writers? Writers starved. Writers suicided. Writers went mad.

yes, Wagner and the storm intermix with the wine as nights like this run up my wrists and up into my head and back down into the gut