You can't sustain [anger]. You become bitter. Nothing's going to change. Anger leads to resentment, then to spiking your orange juice, then to martyrdom.

Summer coming like a car from down the highway.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

and then she asks me how many sexual partners I've had and I say one or two depending on your definition of what I did to Custer . . .

If it's fiction, then it better be true.

Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.

She wanted to be buried in a coffin filled with used paperbacks.