Every generation loses the Messiah it has failed to deserve.

I said, “I need to hear something that’s going to save my life.” Re: Selecting songs from a jukebox.

When some drunken fool asked if she was a lesbian, she would say, 'In everything but sexual preference.

That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.

He was a fugitive, lurking soul, James Leer. He didn't belong anywhere, but things went much better for him in places where nobody belonged.

It is always so simple, and so complicating, to accept an apology.

People keep saying, 'Oh, you're getting all these great reviews, that must make you really happy.' I guess it does, but mostly it's just a relief.