Don’t you have someone else to harass? People to eat?”“Nope. You’re at the top of my list.”“Well, aren’t I special?

If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.

Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.

I was into punk, but I didn't go whole-hog. A lot of kids who grew up in small towns that were into punk music went the "safe" way - not doing drugs, being straight edge.

All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.

Money is bounded; we only have so much of it. Love goes on forever.

Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.

Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.

Other seasons come abruptly but ask so little when they do. Winter is the only one that has to be relearned.

Moreover, a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades or domes.

I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.