Who said anything about slicing you up? ... I just wanted to carve a little Z on your forehead-- nothing serious.

The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.

There is probably some long-standing "rule" among writers, journalists, and other word-mongers that says: "When you start stealing from your own work you're in bad trouble." And it may be true.

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.

Things are no longer what they seem to be. My telephones are haunted, and animals whisper at me from unseen places.

Though I was careful never to mention it, I began to see a new dimension in everything that happened.

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.