I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They would do anything to be unique.

Pretty things will swarm you like that, like your heart was a hive of electric bees.

It goes in streaks. But some things never go out of fashion.' Hunger artists, fat folks, giants, and dog acts come and go but real freaks never lose their appeal.

My worst is all out in the open. It makes it necessary for people to tell you about themselves.

There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough. Time gets strange there from too much sky, too many miles from crack to crease in the flat surface of the land.

I know if I were in your generation I would be really tired of seeing Sophia Loren as a sex object.

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.