God-forsaken is beautiful, too.

I feel as if I am an ad for the sale of a haunted house: 18 rooms $37,000 I’m yours ghosts and all.

For the rest of my life I'll be thinking about that hamburger. I'll be sitting there at the counter, holding it in my hands with tears streaming down my cheeks. The waitress will be looking away because she doesn't like to see kids crying when they are eating hamburgers.

I saw thousands of pumpkins last night come floating in on the tide, bumping up against the rocks and rolling up on the beaches; it must be Halloween in the sea

I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.

I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.

He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the whores of New Orleans.