Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.

It's not love or anything, but I think I like you, too.

Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution.

All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does. Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that.

We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.

With the novels, I usually start from something in my own life that I can't resolve, so I turn it into a metaphor and for months or sometimes years I'll exhaust all of my emotional reaction to this issue by making it enormous on the page.

I spend most of my life just listening to people.