Destruction is always an attractive idea. My brother and I used to spend weeks making models of cities so that we could destroy them in 15 minutes. There's a fantastic joy in destroying something that you've meticulously built. Then you're free to build a new thing. Destruction and creation they're inseparable.

Her voice makes me think of her mouth makes me think of her breath makes me think of her breasts.

You love me. You ignore me. You save my life, then you cook my mother into soap.

Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing . . .

In truth, the degree of anyone's success depends on how often they can say the word yes and hear the word no.

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.

Love is a skill you learn.