“I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.”

“Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.”

“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.”

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

“When a man showed up you didn't want to look at his face and he didn't want to look at his face and he didn't want to look at yours, because it's painful to see somebody so clear that it's l...”

“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 com...”

“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,...”