People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become.

No, Miss Wright didn't want to meet her kid. To her, that relationship was just as important, just as ideal and impossible as it would be to the child. She'd expect that young man to be perfect, smart, and talented, everything to compensate for all the mistakes that she'd made. The whole wasted, unhappy mess of her life.

My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich.

I always thought I'd write when I retired - when I turned 65. But by the time I was 33, to tell you the truth, I was a little bored with drugs and sex, and I thought I'd do the writing thing.

The short stories tend to be a journalistic gathering of anecdotes that are put together to make something larger.

People don't listen, they just wait for their turn to talk.

There are worse things you can do to the people you love than kill them. The regular way is just to watch the world do it. Just read the newspaper.