This life is but the childhood of our immortality.

We’d torn open our chests and shown our cowardly hearts, and you can never stay friends after something like that

When he was dry, he believed it was alcohol he needed, but when he had a few drinks in him, he knew it was something else, possibly a woman; and when he had it all -- cash, booze, and a wife -- he couldn't be distracted from the great emptiness that was always falling through him and never hit the ground.

Love and violence-not to conquer one with the other but to live with both, that's what I've learned. Each pulling me a different way. If I relax my struggles they don't tear me in two, but lift me up.

There was a part of her she hadn’t yet allowed to be born because it was too beautiful for this place

You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations.

This life is but the childhood of our immortality.