You live in a tower that soars to heaven and goes unpunished by God.

A dead afternoon in a dark bar was not the worst of fates.

...Because what's the meaning of doing dishes if you're not driven by something beyond necessity.

Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.

Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else. This is where California comes in. Mud slides, brush fires, coastal erosion, mass killings, et cetera. We can relax and enjoy these disasters because in our hearts we feel that California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile knowledge-market.

It's true that some of us become better writers by living long enough. But this is also how we become worse writers. The trick is to die in between.