What's nurtured slowly grows well.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

It's true that at the time I was fond of Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and it was from them that I learned about this kind of simple, swift-paced style, but the main reason for the style of my first novel is that I simply did not have the time to write sustained prose.

No matter what you tell me, no matter how legitimate your reasons, I can never just forget about you, I can never push the years we spent together out of my mind. I can't do it because it really happened, they are part of my life, and there is no way I can just erase them. That would be the same as erasing my own self.

If I choose to write about sheep, it's just because I happened to write about sheep. There is no deep significance.

It was spring break, so the theater was always packed with high schools students. It was an animal house. I wanted to burn the place down.

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.