“Sunday just came down like a nine-pound hammer ... it was tainted with the closing-in feeling of the loss of freedom. Because after the sun went down, it came back up on Monday morning. And you had to go to work five more days. And it sucked.”

“I didn't know why something that started off feeling so good had to wind up feeling so bad. Love was a big word and it covered a lot of territory. You could spend your whole life chasing after it and wind up with nothing, be an old bitter guy with long nose hair and ear hair and no teeth, hanging out in bars, looking for somebody your age, but the chances of success went down then. After a while you got too many strikes against you.”

“they had more shit on tv than you could believe now.”

“Don't say what you would or wouldn't do, honey. Cause one day you might have to.”

“If you want to write, you've got to shut yourself up in a room and write.”

“After a year of therapy, my psychiatrist said to me, "Maybe life isn't for everyone.”

“I told him. We got a library here. Got plenty of good books, too. -Larry Brown, Dirty Work”