Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

...I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar-you live next door to the strange and the unlikely for so long that everything and everyone become commonplace.

Our memory is a monster; you forget it - it does not.

But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.

Ted Seabrooke, my wrestling coach, had a kind of Nietzschean effect on me in terms of not just his estimation of my limited abilities, but his decidedly philosophical stance about how to conduct your life, what you should do to compensate for your limitations. This was essential to me, both as a student - and not a good one - and as a wrestler who was not a natural athlete but who had found something he loved.

The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.

Human sexuality makes farcical our most serious intentions.