“I considered the wonder of the things that befell me, convinced that my life was the best omelet you could make with a chainsaw. -- Panama”

“I may be the wrong person for my life.”

“The occupational hazard of making a spectacle of yourself, over the long haul, is that at some point you buy a ticket too.”

“Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.”

“She ate her breakfast in silence, then drove downtown in weather so lowering the streetlights seemed decapitated. This was when you could discover if your preparations for winter were adequate, and if you were ready for the restrictions of movement and light that were about to be upon you.”

“That food was so bad I can't wait for it to become a turd and leave me.”

“It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing.”