Now it stands to reason, mister, any damn fool stares into the sun long enough, he'll end up seeing exactly what some other damn fool tells him he's going to see.

We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge.

The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.

When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own.

Old friend, there are people—young and old—that I like, and people that I do not like. The former are always in short supply. I am turned off by humorless fanaticism, whether it's revolutionary mumbo-jumbo by a young one, or loud lessons from scripture by and old one. We are all comical, touching, slapstick animals, walking on our hind legs, trying to make it a noble journey from womb to tomb, and the people who can't see it all that way bore hell out of me.

I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what I write.

The only thing that prisons demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.