I thought you were sane," I said, "but you're just as crazy as the rest of them.

I didn't like parties.I didn't know how to dance and people frightened me, especially people at parties. They attempted to be sexy and gay and witty and although they hoped they were good at it, they weren 't. They were bad at it. Their trying so hard only made it worse.

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

They, all of them, seemed to put literary form in front of the actuality and living of life itself.

I write as a function. Without it I would fall ill and die. It's as much a part of one as the liver or intestine, and just about as glamorous.

We use such big words to move nowhere.

Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.