"But he won’t let the pain blot out the humor no more’n he’ll let the humor blot out the pain."
- Ken Kesey
"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 it’s 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 to..."
"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 yo..."
"One of the dumbest things you were ever taught was to write what you know. Because what you know is usually dull. Remember when you first wanted to be a writer? Eight or ten years old, reading about t..."
"The stars up close to the moon were pale they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon "
"Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing."
"He couldn't seem to get his teeth into anything. Except books. The things in books was darn near more real to him than the things breathing and eating."