Don't ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out.

I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.

Angels, we have grown apart.

He asked, "what makes a man a writer?" "well," I said, "it's simple, it's either you get it down on paper or you jump off a bridge. writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers." "are you desperate?" "I don't know.

Oh, I don’t mean you’re handsome, not the way people think of handsome. Your face seems kind. But your eyes - they’re beautiful. They’re wild, crazy, like some animal peering out of a forest on fire.

places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you notice that?

I feel strangely normal.