One should learn from a book. Books have a lot to teach us. They have a lot of empathy to impart to us, but they should also be fun. This stuff is fun! You shouldn't pick up a book and say, "Oh my god, I'm gonna better myself by reading this." You may better yourself by reading this, but who cares? Just have fun.

By reading this message you are denying its existence and implying consent.

The only way to write about right now is to write about the future.

I'm the fortieth ugliest man in this bar. But so what! So what!... Isn't this how people used to fall in love?

People always write on my Facebook that they've seen somebody they thought was me on the subway, and I was cursing badly.

A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [...]

I reveled in the smallness, the coziness of an upstairs bedroom in a traditional American Cape Cod house the half-floor that forces you to duck, to feel small and naive again, ready for anything, dying for love, your body a chimney filled with odd, black smoke. These square, squat, awkward rooms are like a fifty-square-foot paean to teenage-hood, to ripeness, to the first and last taste of youth.