When I was a baby, my mama told me son, always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns. But I shot a man in Reno.

If you're going to be a Christian, you're going to change. You're going to lose some old friends, not because you want to, but because you need to.

I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.

Could it be the girls and boys are trying to be heard above your noise?

There's no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully, come out the other side. The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left.

He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand, and tried to tell himself at last he had become a man.

I worked there [on Pontiac] three weeks, got really sick of it, went back home and joined the Air Force.