every failure is also a victory.

It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.

One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner either.

What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They're entirely themselves. They've got their own vision, they have their own way of fracturing reality, and if it's authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings.

It is tragic and sad and chaotic and lovely. All life is the same, as citizens of the human State: the animating limits are within, to be killed and mourned, over and over again.

There's good self-consciousness, and then there's toxic, paralyzing, raped-by-psychic-Bedouins self-consciousness.

Dieting makes me want to murder everyone around me.