Every masterpiece is just dirt and ash put together in some perfect way.

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

The rules that I adhere to are the rules of minimalism. And those rules kind of force writing to be more filmic... to have the immediacy and accessibility of film so that the reader really has to fill in a lot of the details.

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.

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

This is passive-aggression in action.

There's no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you.