“We'd just shared the last beer and slung the empty can out the window at a stop sign and were just waiting back to get the feel of the day, swimming in that kind of tasty drowsiness that comes over...”

“But he wont let the pain blot out the humor no moren hell let the humor blot out the pain.”

“They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.”

“It's the truth, even if it didn't happen......if they don't exist, how can a man see them?”

“I been silent so long now its gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God; you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is ...”

“I don't seem able to get it straight in my mind....”

“Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.”

“Oh, Sweetie. No one ever gets through their TBR list. For every book you finish, you'll add five more. That's just the way it works.”

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”