The money is in television. Books are not the dominant medium of our time, so fewer people will create them. In a sad way, books have become a form of "comfort food" we expect to lull us to sleep.

I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of this world.... I am the toxic waste by-product of God's creation.

and i can't stand the idea of being alone. i can't bear the thought of being free.

That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.

I am the child of a lunatic. Not a child of God.

It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.

If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.