I don't want to hurt myself. I want to stop hurting.

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.

God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I’m not crazy about.

I perhaps could have been somewhat better. One of the interesting things about playing competitive sports as a child is that you confront your own limitations rather starkly at a certain point.

The fun of reading as "an exchange between consciousnesses, a way for human beings to talk to each other about stuff we can't normally talk about."

I'm screaming for help and everybody's acting as if I'm singing Ethel Merman covers.

Nothing brings you together like a common enemy.