You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.

I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.

When I think about it, I'm happily bewildered that people will preorder my books They'll preorder me. What a lucky guy!

Little girls are like old cats. If they don't like you nothing on Earth will make them pretend to.

I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can.

Words are very powerful and can lead anyone reading them or hearing them, into contemplation and insight. How the mind follows suit is rarely palpable or expected. This impact is not a matter of metaphysical effects nor of an unexplainable phenomenon. It’s simply part of being human.

But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.