Time is never wasted coming to an old man bar.

I thought that you had to learn to write by yourself and if you couldn't do it, then you were out of luck.

Time is never wasted coming to an old man bar.

Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you're often wrong. I think math helped me become a good critic of myself, come at writing a little less personally.

Drugs and drinking affect every family I know, country and city, middle-class and poor.

I'm not much interested in my own self when I write. I'm interested in what I observe out there, what's going on around me.

I worked probably fewer jobs than most people, or fewer real soul-killing jobs than other people. I've been a typist, a typesetter, a keyliner, cappuccino-maker. I think I've been pretty lucky.