“The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.”

“on short stories:something glimpsed from the corner of the eye, in passing.”

“It's all in the art. You get no credit for living.”

“Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind. ”

“Fate had a cruel sense of humor. It had been all his fault, anyway, whatever Mick or Gillia told him. Careless preoccupation and utter stupidity. Boyhood ignorance and negligence. He was only getting what he deserved, over and over again, for the rest of his life. If only in his dreams.”

“You got to start thinking, and you've got to let go of the idea that you're something special to somebody, because none of us are, and if you don't, if you don't stop dreaming about that, you're going to end up all snap-snap-snapped to pieces.”

“If you can't get what you want, you end up doing something else, just to get some relief. Just to keep from going crazy. Because when you're sad enough, you look for ways to fill you up.”