All of my chupacabra books are like novelizations of movies that haven’t been made yet.

Prison is like high school with knives.

There is nothing like scrubbing toilets for a living to make you question the choices you have made in life.

Sometimes I feel like I am on top of the world. Other times it feels like the world is on top of me.

They kept me in a cage for too long because now every room I am standing in is just another cell.

anyone who has no feelings for animals has a dead heart.

I eat the hearts of girls and puke slugs and snails.

Being in prison for seven years was like being in an army that never drilled, never deployed, and only fought itself.

I used to wonder what I was doing wrong. Now I know: just about everything.

Falling in love is one of most beautiful emotions one can feel. You haven’t lived your life, if you haven’t loved.

Many people make the mistake of saving money by wasting time.

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin, more even than death.

While Lyndon Johnson was not, as his two assistants knew, a reader of books, he was, they knew, a reader of men— a great reader of men.

I presume that it is the better part of wisdom that we bow to our fate with as good grace as possible.

Accursed be he who plays with the devil.

Patience, time and money accommodate all things.

Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work.

She took comfort in the soft occasional sound of turning pages.

I love it when ugliness is beautiful. I love character flaws.