Times are you say a person's b'liefs ain't true, they think you're sayin' their lifes ain't true an' their truth ain't true.

Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.

Memories are their own descendents masquerading as the ancestors of the present.

Me, I want to bloody kick this moronic bloody world in the bloody teeth over and over till it bloody understands that not hurting people is ten bloody thousand times more bloody important than being right.

Why does any martyr cooperate with his judases?...We see a game beyond the endgame...As Seneca warned Nero: No matter how many of us you kill, you will never kill your successor.

For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.

maybe the meaning of life lies in looking for it