She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.

The soil of a man’s heart is stonier; a man grows what he can and tends it.

For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.

The best show on television is Red Sox baseball. Everything else sucks.

I've killed enough of the world's trees.

Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood.

In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock from the humdrum rational thinking of our daytime lives.