After the film it was raining, a light steady rain. Ruthless neon on the wet streets like busted candy.

I knew every raindrop by its name.

All these weirdos, and me getting a little better every day right in the midst of them. I had never known, never even imagined for a heartbeat, that there might be a place for people like us.

The first kiss plummeted him down a hole and popped him out into a world he thought he could get along in—as if he’d been pulling hard the wrong way and was now turned around headed downstream.

Sometimes what I wouldn't give to have us sitting in a bar again at 9:00 a.m. telling lies to one another, far from God.

I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.

I make the road. I draw the map. Nothing just happens to me...I'm the one happening.

This life is but the childhood of our immortality.

I really enjoy writing novels. Its like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.

We’d torn open our chests and shown our cowardly hearts, and you can never stay friends after something like that

English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows.

You want a friend in this city? [Washington, DC.] Get a dog!

The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera.

I will allow only my Lord to possess my sacred lotus pond, and every night you can make blossom in me flowers of fire.

The Gulf Stream waters of Woody Guthrie's famous song were strung with columns of oil that were several miles long.

Sometimes it's easier to be as bad as they expect you to be.

I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.

Live, be, move, rejoice -- you are alive! Without the heart's wise rhythm, we could not exist.

Don't feed the trolls; nothing fuels them so much.

You commit a felony, it does not matter who you are, you could be deported.

A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.