Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness?

With every lecture, you’re forced to look again at every choice you’ve made over the lesson-by-lesson chain of your entire life. And after all these years, you see how little you have to work with, how limited your life and education have been. How scant was your courage and curiosity. Not to mention your expectations.

With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.

It's not living alone if you keep a rifle under the bed.

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.

In a city this size, every year, hundreds of husbands walk away. Kids leave home. Wives escape. People disappear.

Get married before the sex gets boring or you'll never get married.