The late afternoon sunlight, warm as oil, sweet as childhood ...
Friends come in and out of our lives, like busboys in a restaurant.
Home is where they want you to stay longer
Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly.
Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.
Read sometimes for the story, Bobby. Don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words - the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers that won't do that. But when you find...
I loved you then and I love you now and I have loved you every second in between.
Explanations are such cheap poetry.
Moonlight flooded in the windows and silvered the room, turning it into a lagoon of dreams
God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.
They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?
The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.
Lover, she whispers, and closes her eyes.
It didn´t occur to me until later that there´s another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is still greed.
It's as if God gave you something-all those stories- and said, "Here you are. Try not to lose it." But children lose everything unless somebody is there to help them, and if your parents are too stupi...
There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don...
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.
There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.