You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.

I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.

For six months I couldn't sleep. With insomnia, nothing's real. Everything is far away. Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.

I remember selling my first short story and thinking, Oh my god, I sold something for fifty dollars! That gives me the authority to say I'm a writer and to actually write more things! It legitimized the activity.

You ever wonder if Adam and Eve were just the puppies God dumped because they wouldn't house-train?

Where I'm is one of those stair climbing machines the agent has installed. You climb and climb forever and never get off the ground. You're trapped in your hotel room. It's the mystical sweat love lodge experience of our time, the only sort of Indian vision quest we can schedule into our daily planner.Our Stair Master to Heaven.

You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future.