“The low bird is not picked tenderly out of the dust by its fellows; rather, it is dispatched quickly and without mercy.”

“When I was a kid I believed everything I was told, everything I read, and every dispatch sent out by my own overheated imagination. This made for more than a few sleepless nights, but it also filled the world I lived in with colors and textures I would not have traded for a lifetime of restful nights.”

“They are surprised that he did it, though, which shows you that the male mind expects very little in the way of altruism from it's fellows.”

“A slice of pie without cheese, it's like a kiss without squeeze...”

“Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.”

“I never think of stories as made things; I think of them as found things. As if you pull them out of the ground, and you just pick them up.”

“Low enough to put on a tophat and crawl under a rattlesnake”