C-C-Can you get bones in your buh-buh-brain?' Bill asked. This was turning into the most interesting conversation he'd had in weeks.

You could not turn off love- even the rather absent, sometimes taken for granted love- the way you'd turn off a faucet. Love ran from the heart and the heart had it's own imperatives

Did it [cocaine] for about eight years. Not a terribly long time to be an addict I guess, but it is longer than World War II.

A lot of fairy tales are thinly disguised hostility raps against parents. Kids know that they can't make it on their own, that if they were left alone, they would die.

Legends grow beards, and twenty-three years is plenty of time to grow a long one.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

Might as well try to drink the ocean with a spoon as argue with a lover.