There's something, I think, that gets lost when we write something - something gets lost in the translation. So I speak everything out, and it's more important how it sounds. And applying that to more formal aspects of writing.

That's what ever great writer, I believe, has done over the course of time - is they've figured out new ways of telling the same stories.

When something is staring you in the face in your life and you see it with your own two eyes and feel it within your heart only a fool doesn't believe it to be true.

I regretted making a comment about Dave Eggers. I’ve never said anything about McSweeneys except that I admire what it is, and I think it’s great that they keep people interested in literature.

A miracle is changing someone's life. Freeing them from whatever bonds them. Giving them the gift of being able to live the way they dream of living.

I hope nobody took the Razzle Dazzle Rose.

To say that you can't see echoes of the past in what I do would be absurd. Everything that has preceded me has affected me.