There is no pain on this earth like seeing the same woman look at another man the way she once looked at you.

Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history.

Jews wait for the Lord, Protestants sing hymns to him, Catholics say mass and eat him.

The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock on an ordinary morning: The non-suicide is a little traveling suck of care, sucking care with him from the past and being sucked toward care in the future. His breath is high in his chest. The ex-suicide opens his front door, sits down on the steps, and laughs. Since he has the option of being dead, he has nothing to lose by being alive. It is good to be alive. He goes to work because he doesn't have to.

A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.

If I had the choice of knowing the truth or searching for the truth, I'd take the search.

Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected.