You can never be too thin or too rich. And if you don't believe it you were never really fat or really poor.
Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.
Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries,hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent.
It's how we see the world that keeps the darkness beyond at bay. Keeps it from pouring through and devouring us. I think all of us might know that, way down deep.
Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when if feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position.
Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.
Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don't have to makes speeches. Just believing is usually enough.
We lie best when we lie to ourselves.
Things do happen for a reason, but do we like the reason? Rarely.
Swear to me swear to me that if it isn't dead you'll all come back.
Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?
On either side of them the essence of honky tonk beach resort had now enclosed them: gas stations, fried clam stands, Dairy Treets, motels painted in feverish pastel colors, mini golf. Larry was drawn...
Oh shit, the mummy's after us, let's all walk a little faster
Men who find themselves late are never sure. They are all the things the civics books tell us the good citizen should be: partisans but never zealots, respectors of the facts which attend each situati...
Love isn’t soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.
Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear
It was like drowning, only from the inside out.
It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.
I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.