I write because I must. It's not a choice or a pastime, it's an unyeilding calling and my passion.

Only three types of people tell the truth: Kids, the drunk, and the angry.

Haven't you picked up on the irony of life by now? Things only just happen when you're not ready. When you're ready, you start trying, and gadamn I feel like trying right now.

I write because I must. It's not a choice or a pastime, it's an unyielding calling and my passion.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned my whole life, time and age are but an illusion.

Knowing who you are is half the peace of accepting yourself.

Sweet April showers Do bring May flowers.

If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.

Well, I'm from the South originally. I grew up in South Carolina definitely learning about manners and being proper and having to go to cotillions.

The most abundant, least used, and most abused resource in the world is human spirit and ingenuity.

Time is but a mode of thought

Having abandoned the taking of life, refraining from killing, we dwell without violence, with the knife laid down, scrupulous, full of mercy, trembling with compassion for all sentient beings.

And I don't want posture lessons from a country that spent the last 20 years flopping on its back and grabbing its ankles when Saddam showed up waving stacks of Francs in exchange for bang-sticks.

Must have been quite the culture shock, going there.” “Yes it was.” Idris doesn’t say that the real culture shock has been in coming back.

We named all our children Kid. Well, they have different first names, like Hey Kid, You Kid, Dumb Kid . . .