...knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity's engine.

Put an egg in your shoe and beat it, make like a tree and leave, imitate an amoeba and split.

The first movie I ever saw was a horror movie. It was Bambi. When that little deer gets caught in a forest fire, I was terrified, but I was also exhilarated.

You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair - the sense that you can never completely put on the page what's in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page.

They say that loving eyes can never see, but that's a fool's axiom. Sometimes, they see too much

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

Don't let the door hitcha where the good Lord splitcha.