There's no place on earth with more dumb girls per square foot than a college in California.

Jesus is the masterpiece. The thieves are minor works. Why are they there? Not to frame the crucifixion, as some innocent souls believe, but to hide it.

Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.

If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.

Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.

I'll tell you, my friends: it's all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the edges of companionship and love. The razor-sharp edges of companionship and love.

we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.