Nothing on my trip thus far was as I expected which shows you that rather than simply read about the United States you have to log the journey.

One of the curious effects of a bad hangover is that you think you're wrong whether you are or not. Not wrong in particulars, but wrong in general, wrong about everything.

I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.

Death steals everything except our stories.

No one else can hold your hand or take this voyage of the soul for you.

Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.

I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who refuses sentiment refuses the full spectrum of human behavior, and then he just dries up. ... I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.