Once I thought I found love, but then I realized I was just out of cigarettes.

I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go.

I've had the wind knocked out of me, but never the hurricane

Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.

I've been ignored by prettier women than you, but none who carried the heavy pitchers of silence so far, without spilling a drop.

I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you. I want to ride in the swing of your hips. My fingers will dig in you like quotation marks, blazing your limbs into parts of speech.

I swallowed a hand grenade that never stops exploding.

There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't.

I know it’s stupid to not own a gun yet have so many triggers, but in some other world gigantic seashells hold humans to their ears and listen to the echo of machines.

I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you.

I graduated first in my class from alibi school.

My grandmother always told me: beauty fades but dumb is forever.

Talented minds have always been stealthily targeted by mediocre ones.

Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.

Faithfulness to God requires your obedience, even when it’s difficult.

Woman is in love with the devil.

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.

My God, I have come with the seeds of questions. I planted them, and they never flowered.

Failure is the foundation of success: success is the lurking place of failure.

The pursuit of exotic beauty in such a life would have been like having a ball of tinfoil in your stomach, all that airy metal filling you up with hunger.

I love grand scale. One of the things that everybody mentions is that my novels are beautiful objects in the sense that the elements of the actual book are being extruded and re-contextualized.