If death is this brilliant slide, this high, fine music felt as pure vibration, this plunging float in wind and silence, it's not so bad.

Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them.

Literature can teach us how to live before we live, and how to die before we die. I believe that writing is practice for death, and for every (other) transformation human beings encounter.

Love is the outlaw's duty.

The writing life is a secret life, wither we admit it or not.

Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on.

Then he's inside you, and your body remembers, each time, every man, even if you try to forget.

Talk between women friends is always therapy.

The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its representation in language.

I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.

I wish I had more time to write.

Jesus take the wheel

Don't take life to seriously, its not like you're going to get out alive! #Life

I stand here waiting. To disappear or sing.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

A mom and dad found an S&M magazine under their 10-year-old son's bed, and the dad said, 'Well, we sure can't spank him.'

Within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.

At least I'm going into the job with clean hands.

I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated.

Each day I move toward that which I do not understand. The result is a continuous accidental learning which constantly shapes my life.

Your faith is very important. I have done the math, and you are going to be dead a whole lot longer that you will be alive.