“A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.”

“...if a person doesn't know they're hurting, why, maybe they're not. I was wrong.”

“Any fool who can pucker is apt to whistle past the graveyard.”

“She looked at the kids, who did not see [them] because they were past the age of twenty-five...”

“A boy who once wiped his ass with poison ivy probably doesn't belong in a smart people's club.”

“I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.”

“I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit.”