It takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.

...the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.

My whole life I've been a fraud. I'm not exaggerating. Pretty much all I've ever done all the time is try to create a certain impression of me in other people. Mostly to be liked or admired. It's a little more complicated than that, maybe. But when you come right down to it it's to be liked, loved. Admired, approved of, applauded, whatever. You get the idea.

I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.

The severing of an established connection is exponentially more painful than the rejection of an attempted connection.

The point of books is to combat loneliness.

If some people read my fiction and see it as fundamentally about philosophical ideas, what it probably means is that these are pieces where the characters are not as alive and interesting as I meant them to be.