everything is toxic. That's the point. You can't avoid toxins. Thinking you can is just another symptom of the toxic overload stage.

I suspected that there were things he knew that I had been waiting all my life to learn.

An urban novelist never minds a little decay.

There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.

A horse herd was, in its very essence, the manifestation of the expression 'It's always something.

There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox.

The desire to write a novel is the single required prerequisite for writing a novel.