Because no one can catch the motherfucking fox.

You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.

...It was nice to spend time with someone so interesting.

I hope we get pulled over, he says. I'd like to see how the cop responds to a black man wearing a Confederate T-shirt over a black dress.

Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species.

It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.

Shame about how we’re gonna die here, though. I mean, seriously. An Arab and a half-Jew enter a store in Tennessee. It’s the beginning of a joke, and the punch line is “sodomy’’.