Superhero movies and comic books teach a lesson that runs directly counter to the culture-of-violence idea: guns are for bad guys too cowardly to fight like men.

We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long.

Dead was the gift that kept on giving. Dead, like diamonds, was forever.

A broken spoon may be a fork in disguise.

I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

I always drank, from when it was legal for me to drink. And there was never a time for me when the goal wasn't to get as hammered as I could possibly afford to. I never understood social drinking, that's always seemed to me like kissing your sister.

She ran out of her marriage the way a woman can run out of a pair of sandals when she decides to let go and really dash.