It's hard to get movie studios to pay a lot of money for movies that don't have robots or explosions.

He knew he couldn't tell stories, that he always included extraneous details & tangents that interested only him.

Dad had a sign of his own. MY BEAUTIFUL FAMILY, it read, and then underneath that (AND GUS).

And okay, fair enough, but there is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of violates that contract.

Like, in general I think people have very complicated reasons for wanting things, and we often have no idea whether we’re actually motivated by altruism or a desire to hook up or a search for answers or what. I always get annoyed when in books or movies characters want clear things for clear reasons, because my experience of humanness is that I always want messy things for messy reasons.

Hi, I’m at the Speedway at Eighty-sixth and Ditch, and I need an ambulance. The great love of my life has a malfunctioning G-tube.

I don't really care how people read. I care if people read.