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 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 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

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

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

I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.

When we blindly focus on what is to come we fail to see the 'now' and it is the 'now' which is our life. Each moment of each day is what we are living. Don’t miss the moments of each day.

The hardest thing in the world is to let go of who you once thought you were and to manifest your true self, at the risk of being unloved. This is self-actualization.

He seemed to believe that indignation was a sufficient guardian.

Competition is key to developing players. The only practice environment in which you truly develop a player is a competitive arena.

I'm too drunk to taste this chicken

There is no success which can compensate for the failure of the family.

I won't read a book that starts with a description of the weather. I don't read books over 300 pages, though I'll make an exception for Don Delillo.

They don't bother too much with the balance and things on blues records.

He won't hurt me. I have a secret weapon.