The Edge...There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others-the living-are those who pushed their control as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to when it came time to choose between Now and Later. But the edge is still Out there.

On my tombstone they will carve, "IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.

The thing that was important to me about Hemingway at the time was that Hemingway taught me that you could be a writer and get away with it.

We are all wired into a survival trip, now.

With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.

Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.

The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.