What does that mean know me, know me, nobody ever knows anybody else, ever! You will never know me.

I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He's not crazy, it's just the litany of the mid-life crisis.

Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last two or three years.

I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.

History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad.

It's the rare book that's able to transport you in a way that a movie does.

Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as you are one of the participants? That was something that I was thinking about a lot because there are many moments in 'Less Than Zero' where horrific things happen and Clay could do something about them, but his passivity stops him.