In my writing, I want to be laid bare as a human being.

I knew every raindrop by its name.

All these weirdos, and me getting a little better every day right in the midst of them. I had never known, never even imagined for a heartbeat, that there might be a place for people like us.

The first kiss plummeted him down a hole and popped him out into a world he thought he could get along in—as if he’d been pulling hard the wrong way and was now turned around headed downstream.

Sometimes what I wouldn't give to have us sitting in a bar again at 9:00 a.m. telling lies to one another, far from God.

I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.

I make the road. I draw the map. Nothing just happens to me...I'm the one happening.

This life is but the childhood of our immortality.

I really enjoy writing novels. Its like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.

We’d torn open our chests and shown our cowardly hearts, and you can never stay friends after something like that

After the film it was raining, a light steady rain. Ruthless neon on the wet streets like busted candy.

Make the most of the opportunity.

When you are doing something you love, you see the lover dancing in your heart.

Don't wait to be compelled to do great work.

With life, the absolute truth can be postpone for a while, looking at the daily problems of life but cannot be avoided.

Biography is the only true history.

I think the most important thing is to have fun, and not to take things too seriously. Once you start doing that, then you'll start to crumble.

It's difficult to make any kind of action movie that might be unique or worth watching.

It find it funny how people from Boston and New York hate each other because of pro teams.

Furthermore, unlike Man's other great good friend the horse, the cat is no sweating serf of Man. The only labor she condescends to perform is to catch mice and rats, and that's fun.

An artist is completely amoral in that he will rob, beg, borrow, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.