It was a rotten time to try to be a man in America. Until Blue came along I’d never even spent time around a man. Hell, I’d never even seen one. Where were all the men in this once great land?

The Adventure called and I followed with my thumb like a character being written by an intractable author. Which, of course, I was.

Life is too short to waste being a productive member of society.

I just want to live my own life instead of everyone else’s version of it.

Over the years most of my peers had come to hate me—I never understood why. I guess I was just different and, like dogs, they could smell it. So I never had many friends.

Begging is much more difficult than it looks. Contrary to popular belief, it’s a high art form that takes years of dedicated practice to master.

Have you ever noticed how good things go to those who hate?

The simple act of sitting here sipping this cappuccino is its own testament to my commitment to living the writer’s life. Which is to say: doing nothing but doing it exceedingly well.

I wondered about my inner child. In fact, I was troubled. Did I even have an inner child, I asked myself, given that, in essence, I’d just been born?

I wouldn’t be caught dead sacrificing myself for this country.

When it rains it pours and when it shines you get melanoma.

No matter how far down a path you go, if it's the wrong path, turn around and go back home - before it is too late.

Is it shocking?" he asked sarcastically. "To discover that there are things you don't know?

Every time I break your heart, I break mine.

The use we make of our fortune determines its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much if expended foolishly.

Storytelling is not what I do for a living - it is how I do all that I do while I am living.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

I don't behave the way people necessarily want me to, but I tried behaving that other way for a short period of time and it didn't take.

Off Cape Horn there are but two kinds of weather, neither one of them a pleasant kind.

Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.

Despite winning the world championship, it has not altered the reality of the situation.