It's turning out to be a bad day, a day when the sun feels like teeth.

Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want to do.

It was the hat. He looked sweet in the hat. How could a man in a fuzzy blue hat have used human bones to pave his roads?

I haven't had writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly.

The world is full of shitheads, Rhea. Don’t listen to them—listen to me. And I know that Lou is one of those shitheads. But I listen.

I think, The world is actually huge. That's the part no one can really explain.

I'm a dogged person. I respond to adversity with a steely resistance.