I'm in that very preliminary stage of wondering how exactly to "pressurize" the novel in some way I've never considered before.

In me, speaking psychologically, there is always an ongoing struggle between my enormously self-regarding, almost delusionally aspirational, Napoleonic personality and a marginalized one.

Actually what's worse than a dog's mouth is a cat's mouth. They're not dirtier per se, but they have sharper teeth, so they are much more likely to go deep, should they bite you.

Stand-up comedy had an interesting effect on me in terms of how I started to think about constructing things, because I really loved the interstices, the linkages, or lack thereof.

I thought of myself as kind of an anarchist all my whole adult life, from the days when I was 15 or 16.

I'm in that very preliminary stage of wondering how exactly to "pressurize" the novel in some way I've never considered before.

I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell - they have that look.