[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.

He’d always been willing to confess his faults, for, by admitting them, it was as if he made them no longer exist.

It's odd about tattoos. I've talked to several hundred men convicted of homicide-multiple homicide, in most cases. The only common denominate- I could find among them was tattoos. A good eighty percent of them were heavily tattooed.

I'm one of the world's greatest pencil sharpeners.

If a man doesn't like baseball, then he must like horses, and if he doesn't like either of them, well, I'm in trouble anyway: he don't like girls.

I feel that all a writer has is his own experience.

It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing.