I'm kind of interested in learning to learn and grow and challenge myself. I think I've been very fortunate in that my books are pretty different from one novel to the next. There's a lot of things that are similar but in terms of tone and the scale and how they interact with history and just the different styles as well.

I was getting close to thirty and was trying on the idea of becoming more mature. I was reading more. I had gone out and bought a lot of shirts.

We have fun acting like this, acting like we are incredibly offended. Really, we are just bored to tears with everything.

What I've learned is that there is nothing in this life that does not fail to disappoint us, even our own deaths.

The longer human beings exist, it seems, the less likely we are to choose to be brave.

Funny as hell, searingly honest, and urgently real, Sam Pink's Rontel puts to shame most modern fiction. His writing perfectly captures the bizarre parade that is Chicago, with all its gloriously odd and wonderful people. This book possesses both the nerve of Nelson Algren and the existential comedy of Albert Camus.

Imagination is a place where all the important answers live.