If the furnace is hot enough, anything will burn, even Big Macs.

Running to him was real; the way he did it the realest thing he knew. It was all joy and woe, hard as a diamond; it made him weary behond comprehension. But it also made him free.

The Trial of Miles; Miles of Trials.

No one promised you there would be universal justice.

He ran his hand up and down his left achilles tendon. Very tender; better pay attention to it and back off if it gets any worse. Maybe ice it. The old Injury Evasion Fandango. Did it ever end?

When the guy kissed her, Cassidy felt a stab of pain that was close to physical, and therefore within the penumbra of hurts he told himself he could bear.

Killing animals to make a fashion statement = a sickening + cold-blooded vanity.

I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984.

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

Reason is the illusion of reality

The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.

I'm just singing what I feel in my heart.

Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think.

There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.

I've only been to Ireland once, and I felt I would wake up with voices in my head, almost like music, and that if I were a songwriter, I would be very inspired.

Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand