Did you know Johnny thinks he's Pittacus resurrected?
I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q. . .
But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why.
When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us.
I want to be violated by insight.
I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.
We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's too much thought and not enough heart.
Once you've been in a mental institution, people are going to look at you funny.
I don't know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I'm at during a particular moment in time.
I chart a little first-list of names, rough synopsis of chapters, and so on. But one daren't overplan; so many things are generated by the sheer act of writing.
Trial by jury must be preserved. It is the best system ever invented for a free people in the world's history.