Apologies aren't something you want to get in the habit of practicing in the mirror
Life is fundamentally up for grabs
Every book is a kind of experiment in doing something that feels impossible.
It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.
The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory.
The key to mostly anything is pretending your first time isn't.