I was trying to decide if you still had free will as a wolf. If I was a terrible person for planning to drug my girlfriend and drag her back to my house to keep in the basement.

People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.

Scent is the strongest tie to memory.

In the darkness, he is invisible, but I can still feel him beside me. Sometimes you don't have to see something to know it is there.

I always listen to you. Except when I don't.

Because you have only known me for like fourteen seconds and seven of those were us making out and you still know more about me than all of my friends in this stupid place.

Are there any other missing persons living under your roof? Elvis? Jimmy Hoffa? Amelia Earhart? I'd just like full disclosure now, before we go any further.

I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself.

I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words.

He sounded absolutely miserable. “Are you ever going to speak to me?

I thought, possibly, that what I really needed was to go where nobody knew me and start over again, with none of my previous decisions, conversations, or expectations coming with me.

Power is a drug on which the politicians are hooked. They buy it from the voters using the voters' own money.

Playwriting is an oral art; it's not an art of a writer expecting to be read but a writer expecting to be heard.

You can hide beneath the covers and study your pain, make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain. Waste your summer praying in vain, for a savior to rise from these streets.

No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.

Competition in rowing doesn't just come from other countries. It comes from Wall Street, med school, law school. You think Harvard and Princeton grads want to live in Chula Vista?

Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time.

George Washington hated the guerrillas. He wanted to imitate the British red coat armies, fighting as gentlemen are supposed to fight.

We live in an age in which the imagination of the novelist is helpless against what he knows he is going to read in tomorrow's newspaper.

If you are looking for a whale you cannot search for a whale in a pond. You must go to deep waters.

Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into the nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas.