Let's enjoy the aimless days while we still can.

Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others.

We need time to lose interest in things.

He speaks in your voice, American, and there's a shine in his eye that's halfway hopeful.

Bloomberg weighed three hundred pounds. This itself was historical. I revered his weight. It was an affirmation of humanity's reckless potential; it went beyond legend and returned through mist to the lovely folly of history. To weigh three hundred pounds. What devout vulgarity.

Being called a 'bad citizen' is a compliment to a novelist, at least to my mind. That's exactly what we ought to do.

There are two categories of writers, it could be said: The author who is just a voice, and the one who is also creating a picture. I belong to the latter, because I have an acute visual sense.