I think you would like Warren. He drinks Courvoisier in a Coke can, and has a laugh like you'd find in a cartoon bubble.

I'm not good at small talk; I'm not good at big talk; and medium talk just doesn't come up.

I get rational when I panic.

When the beer is gone, so are they -- flexing their cars on up the boulevard.

Wear your heart on the page, and people will read to find out how you solved being alive.

I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to write fiction. So I did journalism because there were rules I could learn. You can teach someone to write a news story. They might not write a great one, but you can teach that pretty easily.

It is possible to imagine a person so entirely that the image resists attempts to dislodge it.