You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

Somewhere in him, a shadow turned mournfully over. You had to run with a night like this so the sadness could not hurt

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.

...I mean, you don't just love people, you must LOVE them with exclamation points.

All of the good, weird stories I’ve written are based on things I’ve dredged out of my subconscious. That’s the real stuff. Everything else is fake.

Do three things each night before you go to bed: read a poem, read a short story, read an essay.