You cant be too careful on a skateboard.

The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no words for childhood's dark turns and exhalations. A wise child recognizes it and submits to the necessary consequences. A child who counts the cost is a child no longer.

Here I am, ninety years old and ready for the cooling board, using a brand new Macintosh computer, and there you sit, twenty-two and gorgeous, fresh as a new peach, yet scrawling on a yellow legal pad like an old maid in a Victorian romance.

It's actually against my religion to laugh at men who are toting guns.

...writing fiction...is no job for intellectual cowards.

You'll consider what you did wrong & bookend your reflections with hunger - no supper, no breakfast.

Like some dogs: kick them once and they never trust you again, no matter how nice you are to them.