There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your wife get old and bored. You can watch your kids discover everything in the world you've tried to save them from. Drugs, divorce, conformity, disease. All the nice clean books, music, television. Distraction.

Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.

If I turn up suicided in the morning, it was murder.

There are bodies buried everywhere you just have to know where to look.

Love is a skill you learn.

Public taste changes and the aesthetic of a culture changes over time, so the idea isn't to appeal to the aesthetic of the moment and what people will like right now; the idea is to somehow keep yourself in the public memory so that as taste evolves it will eventually come to embrace your thing. So, it's about writing to be remembered rather than writing to be liked.

We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.