Something changed. Somewhere along the line you stopped accelerating.

I was fortunate to get a lot of mileage out of my vices . . . The point is not to be debilitated by your pleasures. Maybe I have lucky genes or something but I've never been truly addicted to anything, except pleasure in general.

There aren't many shy writers left.

Your presence here is is only a matter of conducting an experiment in limits, reminding yourself of what you aren’t.

The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.

If it's red, French, costs too much, and tastes like the water that's left in the vase after the flowers have died and rotted, it's probably Burgundy.

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them.