Because everything up to now is a story and everything after now is a story.

Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution.

When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?

The girl's lover was gone, but his shadow was still there.

I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of his death from being a total surprise.

To see how boring you really are, write a book about soap and cults, and the profits you make will be your only means of subsistence.

I'm not really into comfort books. There are too many of those as it is. Just sort of narcotic books, like my grandmother used to read. They have value like Paxil has value, but there's plenty of them in the world already. There's a shortage of confronting, stimulating, exciting books.