Courage is grace under pressure.

Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.

The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.

I kept this to remind me of you trying to brush away the Villa Rossa from your teeth in the morning, swearing and eating aspirin and cursing harlots. Every time I see that glass I think of you trying to clean your conscience with a toothbrush.

I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.

I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.

Always stop for the day while you still know what will happen next.