You always kill the one you love.

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.

If you died right now, how would you feel about your life?

It's not living alone if you keep a rifle under the bed.

I think standardization is really the first step to something being commodified.

I realized that my book readings were boring me. I was going to go up there and read a passage and sleepwalk through the whole event and I needed to make it more interesting. I wanted to be running and jumping and do something so that the event would be so exciting. I had to trick myself into having fun every time.

It's just the biggest mistake I could think to make