Another thing he told his customers was that one of the great accounting unknowns of the modern age was how to value knowledge. It was an exciting field.

Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I don't know any smokers now, not even my mom.

Eavesdrop and write it down from memory - gives you a stronger sense of how people talk and what their concerns are. I love to eavesdrop!

Art doesn't exist if you just do what you're told. It only exists as an exercise of individual taste and freedom.

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

Because your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect.

We sort of read two or three big newspapers but we don't get the flavor of the local events, the local news as much.