Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.

My big fish must be somewhere.

Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too and my feet and hands are like theirs.

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

Hombre, there are bodegas open all night long.

And we could have all this,' she said. 'And we could have everything and every day we make it more impossible.' 'What did you say?' 'I said we could have everything.' 'We can have everything.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can have the whole world.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can go everywhere.' 'No, we can't. It isn't ours anymore.' 'It's ours.' 'No, it isn't. And once they take it away, you never get it back.

Let’s not talk about how I am. It’s a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore.