I've created a narrative of the world. I live in the world - tenuously, most times. I've avoided the digital world.

And the only forms of socialism in the world that were then getting results - malign ones, as it was - were the Fascist and Soviet republics. Fascism is a form of socialism - you rebuild the country, you find a scapegoat, and you go from there.

Cats gotta scratch. Dogs gotta bite. I gotta write.

Dead people belong to the live people who claim them most obsessively.

I don't want to recover from writing this book [The Onion]. I feel very poised. I feel like I'm with my mother for the first time ever. I feel like I've confronted her, and the confrontation goes on.

I'm grateful for the life I have. I lived bad for many years, and I've got a great life now. I've got the kind of life people only dream about.

I've created a narrative of the world. I live in the world - tenuously, most times. I've avoided the digital world.