These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.

Crying is right at hand in the smothering dark, closed inside someone else, when you see how everything you can ever accomplish will end up as trash.

After you hear even the shortest great story, it should fill you with a little bit of fear.

Now this is the first rule of fight club: There is nothing a blue collar Nobody in Oregon with a public school education can imagine that a million-billion people haven't already done.

The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate.

People don't listen, they just wait for their turn to talk.

A writer’s job is to cultivate what can go wrong.