It was a year ago today your daughter went missing.’ Bagg had closed his eyes, feeling the death going on inside.

I believe a family just isn’t complete without skeletons. My dearest momma clean bit off my daddy’s nose right around the time they divorced.

Limp finally spoke. “Do you think you could kill a person and not get all crazy about it?

Kids never jumped head first from the top ledge. Never. It seemed forever beforeStoney came back to the surface. Most of the white bubbles had already disappeared.

Grandpa said that we could solve a lot of the world’s problems if we considered cats and dogs edible. Like the neighbor’s dog who goes to the bathroom in his flower garden. And know what else?

The two smallest boys were cut down first, bodies bounding in different directions as they were shot from opposite sides of the field, like pinballs caught in a tight corner.

Taking a couple short backup swigs, Flint’s crippling headache started to release its grip, sort of the way he imagined an octopus would release an inedible bowling ball.

The voice that U hear is the alchemy of Ur mind.

O Life! thou art a galling load Along a rough a weary road to wretches such as I.

Something that confirms all fears and many conspiracy theories about government is finding out what our elected representatives would put into law if they could.

The English have a wellspring of comedy that will never be exhausted: the combination of bestial urges and excellent manners.

There are other times. There are other adventures. There are other dreams .

The difference between a serial killer and a saint is environment. That's a very hard thing to accept because that raises a lot of questions

Hope sings when all melodies are gone.

And we meet, with champagne and a chicken, at last.

Without full awareness of breathing, there can be no development of meditative stability and understanding.

I'm not as self-destructive as Dylan Thomas, but I've certainly been around that behavior enough to have found it a release. The thing that I really enjoyed was being able to play misery.