As a reader, I do not like to have everything handed to me. Because after a while it gets formulaic and I'm thinking, "If this is so thought through, then why do I need to read it. It's done!" It becomes a beach book at a certain point.

As a writer, you don't know what the hell you're doing. You're just doing it. You hope it works out well.

When you're at the basketball court watching a game, one person may be talking about a fight he had with his wife, another is talking about the last hard-on he got, someone else is talking about the presidential election. The language and the tone and the voice - I'd love to be able to capture that spontaneity.

I believe - what did Faulkner say? "The past is not even past."

A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips and teaches us to perceive reality differently.

I can't pretend that I did one really awful thing - I took a bite out of the apple but now I'm never going to sin again.

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