. . .my dreams are the single unpredictable factor in my zoned days and nights. Nobody allots them, or censors them. Dreams are all I have ever truly owned.

I really wish they hadn't made the set out of asbestos.

Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction

I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.

Often I think boys don’t become men. Boys just get papier-mâchéd inside a man’s mask. Sometimes you can tell the boy is still in there.

Wars are never cured, they just go into remission for a few years.

Folks with most to complain about seldom complain most.