You don't understand. You've never hated anybody. No, I never have. We're allotted just so much time on earth, and I wouldn't want the Lord to see me wasting mine in any such manner.

She sounds the way bananas taste.

Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.

There's something really the matter with most people who wear tattoos. There's at least some terrible story. I know from experience that there's always something terribly flawed about people who are tattooed, above some little something that Johnny had done in the Navy, even though that's a bad sign...It's terrible. Psychologically it's crazy. Most people who are tattooed, it's the sign of some feeling of inferiority, they're trying to establish some macho identification for themselves.

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.

Work is the only device I know of.