There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past.

When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don't have an audience; I have a set of standards.

The genius of the primitive mind is that it can render human helplessness in noble and beautiful ways.

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

Why are homosexuals addicted to soap opera? Because our lives are a vivid situation.

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

There are times when you want to stop working at faith and just be washed in a blowing wind that tells you everything.