I sort of like writing about weird characters, I guess.

Some people were born just so they could be buried.

If a person does this for just a couple of years and discovers that it just isn't for him, that's okay. At least he can move on knowing that he gave it his best shot.

Look, girls don't care how many push-ups you can do. They just want to get high and wear flowers in their hair. Maybe steal a car.

The Oxys filled holes in me I hadn't realized were empty. It was, at least for those first few months, a wonderful way to be disabled. I felt blessed.

I'm beginning to believe that anything I do to extend my life is just going to be outweighed by the agony of living it.

Though there are still many good people out there in the world, it seems that they're vastly outnumbered by the stupid, selfish, violent ones.

I spent thirty-two years in a paper mill in southern Ohio, and before that I worked in a meatpacking plant and a shoe factory.

A lot of people get the wrong impression, think there's something romantic or tragic about hitting bottom.

When I turned fifty, I decided to quit the mill and go to graduate school.

I was always a big reader, even when everything was bad and miserable.

I have had you in my life for so long, I want to know when the dream ends and the fairy-tale begins...

I try not to name too many labels - not because it's not cool, but because it starts getting political.

Love seems to be something to approach with caution, as if you'd come across a wrapped box in the middle of the street and have no idea what it contains.

Working in a family business, which obviously The Trump Organization is, is an incredible thing, but it's complicated. It's complex.

Loving yourself means caring enough to make the hard decisions in your life.

My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, for reasons which I can easily supply today

It's enough to have faith in one aspect of God. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false.

Charity never faileth.

In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.

Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.