Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
The only way I could finish a book and get a plot was just to keep making it longer until something happens.
For the masses who do the city's labor also keep the city's heart.
To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.
Never eat in a place called 'Mom's'.
The devil lives in a double-shot", Roman explains himself obscurely. "I got a great worm inside. Gnaws and gnaws. Every day I drown him and every day he gnaws. Help me drown the worm, fellas.