I believe a family just isn’t complete without skeletons. My dearest momma clean bit off my daddy’s nose right around the time they divorced.

Limp finally spoke. “Do you think you could kill a person and not get all crazy about it?

Kids never jumped head first from the top ledge. Never. It seemed forever beforeStoney came back to the surface. Most of the white bubbles had already disappeared.

Grandpa said that we could solve a lot of the world’s problems if we considered cats and dogs edible. Like the neighbor’s dog who goes to the bathroom in his flower garden. And know what else?

The two smallest boys were cut down first, bodies bounding in different directions as they were shot from opposite sides of the field, like pinballs caught in a tight corner.

I wish all those who've found God, would tell the rest of us where he's been hiding.

Love is your only wealth. Everything else is just a mirage.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

I was doing well enough until you came along and kicked my stone over, and out I came, all moss and eyes.

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

Every morning the cuisinier must start again at zero, with nothing on the stove. That is what real cuisine is all about.

One and one is eleven.

I'm a total pleasure seeker. I pursue anything that satisfies me. I usually get it. I have specific needs and I know what they are so I can achieve satisfaction.

Even bad men love their mommas.

when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint, then it is poetry.