I don’t mean to make a big deal out of sobriety, by the way. Of all the modes of human consciousness available to the modern consumer I consider it to be the most overrated.

A true storyteller is really good at writing himself into a corner and then finding a way out of that corner

When I finish a first draft, it's always just as much of a mess as it's always been. I still make the same mistakes every time.

I have a deadline. I'm glad. I think that will help me get it done.

Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.

Every golden age is as much a matter of disregard as of felicity.

He was a fugitive, lurking soul, James Leer. He didn't belong anywhere, but things went much better for him in places where nobody belonged.