Tough old world, baby. If you’re not bolted together tightly, you’re gonna shake, rattle, and roll before you turn thirty.
To write is human, to edit is divine.
Time heals all wounds.
Things come in three major degrees in the human experience, I think. There’s good, bad, and terrible. And as you go down into progressive darkness toward terrible, it gets harder and harder to make subdivisions.
There’s no harm in hoping for the best as long as you’re prepared for the worst.
There was no room in her for anything but joy and fear, and joy ruled the house. Fear lived in the shack out back.
There are things of such darkness and horror – just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty – that they will not fit through the puny human doors of perception.
There ain’t no power in heaven or on earth that can stop people from thinkin the worst when they want to.
The welfare lines are full of educated fools with big ideas.
The turtle couldn’t help us.[repeated often in the rest of the book]
The three true ages of man are youth, middle age, and how the f*** did I get old so soon?
The scholar’s greatest weakness: calling hesitation research.