"Whiskey-stained, buck-toothed, backwoods creep"

"Grizzly bear motherfucker never goes to sleep"

"Acid casualty with a repossessed car"

"Vietnam vet playing air guitar"

"Wave your hands in the dark, woman"

"Fourteen days I've been sleeping in a barn"

"Better get a paycheck tattooed on my arm"

"What the fuck is the world coming to when a drug dealer can't walk the streets at night?"

"Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me."

"In war, you can only be killed once."

"His heart, once capable of inspiring others so completely, could no longer inspire so much as itself."

"It beat now only out of habit. It beat now only because it could."

"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."

"Only if I can have smudged red lipstick."

"Go ahead and have her, go ahead and leave her"

"A dress has no point unless it inspires a man to want to take it off you."

"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man."

"My blood is too thick for Nevada. I've never been able to properly explain myself in this heat."

"A generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers who never understood the essential, old, mystic fallacy of the acid culture:"

"The desperate assumption that somebody, or at least some force, is tending the light at the end of the tunnel."