If you flee from the things you fear, there's no resolution.

You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it.

The last story you should write is the most important story. You should start with a story that is just an amusing, entertaining, fun story to write and learn your writing chops with the least important things before you start applying them to the most important things.

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. And there's no escaping from constant escape. Distracting ourselves. Avoiding confrontation. Getting past the moment. Jacking off. Television. Denial.

Stanislavski was right, you can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know.