I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence.

In this world, it's not enough to have a fine education. You need a piece of paper to prove you got it.

Whoever coined the phrase 'a man's got to play the hand that was dealt him' was most certainly one piss-poor bluffer.

It's really not that hard to put food on the table if that's what you decide to do.

Interesting people always have a past.

I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes.

I wondered if the fire had been out to get me. I wondered if all fire was related, like Dad said all humans were related, if the fire that had burned me that day while I cooked hot dogs was somehow connected o the fire I had flushed down the toilet and the fire burning at the hotel. I didn't have the answers to those questions, but what I did know was that I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes.