Why shouldn’t your curiosity about the world be rewarded?

You can't ever guess at life, at pain. All pain is real, and all pain is personal. It's the most personal thing we have. It eats each of us differently.

We were fools and now we were driving to our deaths in a rental car. Janet Jackson was tinkling from the speakers, asking what we had done for her as of late

No. There is no balance, and no retribution, and no rules. The rules and balances you blather about are hopeful creations of a man fearing death.

Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out of you.

My head was a condemned church with a ceiling of bats, but I swung from this dark mood to euphoria when I thought about leaving.

I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.