I get off on anticipating and waiting much more than I get off on the actual event.

That's the beauty and the terror of being human beings: We just have these symbolic languages, these dreams, and that's all it ever is.

I don't like the way question marks look. They're really ugly. They look like blots. At some other point in my life, I might have disliked them because I never knew how to properly apply them. Also commas, and whether they were outside the quote or inside the quote - that all seemed like an unnecessary pain in the ass.

Hell, I'm going to play pro basketball. I'm going to maybe be famous. I'm going to write books.

I'm still vulnerable and still weak.

Remember that a book is many drafts - mine certainly are. It's improvisation. It's as much jazz and the way we talk and the way I heard people preach coming up as it is writing.

Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable.