Quotes from John Fante, Ask the Dust

Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche?

So it happened at last: I was about to become a thief, a cheap milk-stealer. Here was your lash-in-the-pen genius, your one story-writer: a thief.

I was satisfied that I had done my best. She was insane.