Not everything in church is truth ... And not all truth turns up in church.

Not everything in church is truth ... And not all truth turns up in church.

For my money, there are no more fascinating, hard-working, vulnerable creatures on earth than writers. Every day, they lay their souls out there for public approval or rejection.

I'm making out with a dead girl in my dreams. I'm screwing women I have no business screwing. I'm pushing away the one person who actually gives a damn about me. It's like the Bermuda Triangle of heartache and I'm sinking fast.

Poverty made me feel weak, as if I were coming down with an awful, debilitating, communicable disease - the disease of being without money. Instead of going to the hospital, you went to the poor farm. The difference was, you never got well at the poor farm.

you couldn't talk yourself into love any more than you could talk yourelf out of it.

Yet the past has a will of its own, and you must learn to entertain it, because it will visit, invited or not.