When a regular person gets sick, they take an aspirin. When a writer gets sick, they take notes.

You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buys a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound. You don't win with a lot of treble.

You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.

How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.

I'm working harder than I have ever worked in my entire life, but what the hell, my life is my job now, and my job is my life and that's the way it should be.

I'm a toxic waste byproduct of God's creation.

With the novels, I usually start from something in my own life that I can't resolve, so I turn it into a metaphor and for months or sometimes years I'll exhaust all of my emotional reaction to this issue by making it enormous on the page.