I happen to love football so much and hate myself for loving it.

All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction.

We need books...because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend.

Misery loves another idiot with a jukebox where his soul should be.

Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.

At the end of night, before you close your eyes, be content with what you've done and be proud of who you are.

I have a hard time defending the production of candy, given that it is basically crack for children and makes them dependent in unwholesome ways.

The answer is that we don't choose our freaks, they choose us.

At about the age of ten, during a late summer visit to Sears to buy school clothes, I became aware of the concept of candy by the pound.

The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this - is because I refused to give up. Period.

If you want to fight a cult, you've got to form a cult.

Mourn with those are sorrowful.

I think before I act---and then think again. I am not entirely a coward, but I do not lose myself in action as you do.

Feel that life likes you just the way you are; otherwise, it would have made you differently.

I'm shedding off the old me and I'm reborn as the new me - it's great!

I can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it.

For too long we have been taking, and the Earth has been giving. But that free-for-all, that all-you-can-eat buffet, it's over. The salad bar is closed.

My problem was I let myself become known before I knew myself.

The ear of the bridled horse is in the mouth.

And to the faithful: death, the gate of life.

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.