[Y]outh is hardly human: it can't be, for the young never believe they will die...especially would they never believe that death comes, and often, in forms other than the natural one.

I suppose you think I'm very brazen. Or très fou. Or something.' Not at all.' She seemed disappointed. 'Yes, you do. Everybody does. I don't mind. It's useful.

Every day is a new day with me. All holds are off. All contracts are forgotten.

If you have a single narrator, a person like an "I" - "'I' did this" and "'I' did that" - it automatically solves the most difficult problem in writing.

Some prisons don't allow guitar because the strings can be detached and used as weapons.

Here is a hall without exit, a tunnel without end.

I live in Brooklyn. By choice. Those ignorant of its allures are entitled to wonder why.