The core of literature is the idea of tragedy... You don't really learn much from the good things that happen to you.

He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one and the same for it had but one reality and that was the living of it.

A dream inside a dream might not be a dream.

The man watched him. Real life is pretty bad? What do you think? Well, I think we're still here. A lot of bad things have happened but we're still here. Yeah. You don't think that's so great. It's okay.

One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.

But I didn't know what to say to him. What do you say to a man that by his own admission has no soul? Why would you say anything?

Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.