“A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.”

“A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him," my father had told me more than once. "A businessman has business books and a dream has novels and books of poetry. Most women like reading about love, and a true revolutionary will have books about the minutiae of overthrowing the oppressor. A person with no books is inconsequential in a modern setting, but a peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.”

“I'm just a lie waiting to happen.”

“All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.”

“Mrs. Turner gripped my baby finger.It's amazing how a man can feel sex anywhere on his body.”

“Not for the first time in my life I had made it to the top. For some reason this made me hanker for a chili dog with chopped onions under a blanket of processed American cheese.”

“I hit him more times than necessary but by then my actions were mostly chemical, like a soldier ant or a teenager in love.”