Some people are just born human, the rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. The farther you run, the more God wants you back.

At some point, your memories, your stories, your adventures, will be the only things you'll have left.

I'm not really into comfort books. There are too many of those as it is. Just sort of narcotic books, like my grandmother used to read. They have value like Paxil has value, but there's plenty of them in the world already. There's a shortage of confronting, stimulating, exciting books.

The old rule about how a thing of beauty is a joy forever, in my experience, even the most beauteous thing is only a joy for about three hours, tops. After that, she'll want to tell you all about her childhood traumas. Part of meeting these jail girls is it's so sweet to look at your watch and know she'll be behind bars in half an hour.

In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display.