Teaching writing is a hustle.

The world to come must be composed of what is past. No other material is at hand.

Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.

The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.

He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it.

The point is there ain't no point.

It looks a lot better from up here than it does down there, dont it? Yes. It does. There's a lot of things look better at a distance. Yeah? I think so. I guess there are. The life you've lived, for one. Yeah. Maybe what of it you aint lived yet, too.