holes are interesting. there are books about holes.

I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.

It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.

Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain.

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

I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.

That's how you write novels actually. You suddenly hit upon something and you realize this is the path you were meant to take. You'd be a fool if you didn't follow it. Perhaps it's like solving a difficult question in pure mathematics. There must be a moment when the solution is so simple and evident that you wonder why you hadn't come upon it before. When you do come upon it, you know it in the deepest part of your being. It carries its own logic.