My life was the best omelette you could make with a chainsaw

The occupational hazard of making a spectacle of yourself, over the long haul, is that at some point you buy a ticket too.

It's funny, but... you're sort of a moving target for fortune, and you never know when it will befall you.

We both liked children; we just didn't want any ourselves. There were children everywhere, and we saw no reason to start our own brand. Young couples plunge into parenthood and about half the time they end up with some ghastly problem on their hands. We thought we'd leave that to others.

It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing.

Young anglers love new rivers the way they love the rest of their lives. Time does not seem to be of the essence and somewhere in the system is what they are looking for.

Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.