Coffee justifies the existence of the word 'aroma'.

We’re the worst thing because for us the worst thing is the best thing. And it’s only the best thing for us if it’s the worst thing for someone else.

I suppose the word "unbearable" is a lie by definition. Unless you kill yourself immediately after using it.

I'm with Milton and the Rolling Stones: I don't find the Devil an unsympathetic character. But in any case, my fiction is populated as much by people who do good as it is by those who do bad. I'm interested in imaginatively accommodating as much of the human as possible, for which you need both moral extremes and everything in between.

If Im going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most genre fiction.

Nicotine and alcohol embraced in my system like long-parted siblings, grateful to me for reuniting them.

Snow makes cities innocent again, reveals the frailty of the human gesture against the void.