Intellectual culture seems to separate high art from low art. Low art is horror or pornography or anything that has a physical component to it and engages the reader on a visceral level and evokes a strong sympathetic reaction. High art is people driving in Volvos and talking a lot. I just don't want to keep those things separate. I think you can use visceral physical experiences to illustrate larger ideas, whether they're emotional or spiritual. I'm trying to not exclude high and low art or separate them.

Real writers write because they love to write. They don't write for public acclaim.

There's still a thousand places I haven't gone to die.

Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.

History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.

I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more.

You’re training a new employee,' says Mrs. Clark, 'to take over your boring old job.' When you raise a child.