For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone.

I drink coffee. Without coffee, I probably couldnt write.

It was one of those days when every time I went to go out the door, something grabbed me in the back of the brain and said, lie down and masturbate one more time.

Even when I was living below the poverty line as a novelist, I was still living better than 99.5% of the human population of the world. But in my little, soft realm of trying to amuse a few dozen middle-class people with my books and articles, I did struggle to survive in my own way.

People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.

I've always been inspired by Don Quixote as a role model of sorts, of the power of books to sort of make you insane in maybe a beautiful way.

I don't like to publicly acknowledge being a Jew.