Half-drunk on well-creamed gas station coffee and the exhilarating loneliness of a freeway in nighttime.

Don't lie to anyone, but particularly don't lie to millennials. They just know. They can smell it. Be yourself: if you're old, be old. If you don't know anything about pop culture, don't pretend to know anything about pop culture. When you credit teenagers with intelligence and emotional sophistication, they respond intelligently and with emotional sophistication.

Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting.

I don't see any point in nihilism... just as I suppose the nihilist sees no point in everything else.

I don't think pandemics make us afraid of death, I think they make us afraid of oblivion. They force us to grapple with the futility of effort. Also they make us barf which isn't fun either... Wash your hands, cover your coughs, and find a way to hold in balance the futility of effort with the necessity to struggle.

I was a bit of a Victorian Lady, fainting-wise.

What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant.