It's not sipping wine. It's a mourning wine. You drain it. Like this.

There's not much high and low culture any more: there's just mingling streams of art and what matters is whether it's good art or bad art.

Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!

To be a good writer... read a lot and write every day.

Adults should not weep, I knew. They did not have mothers who would comfort them.

Sometimes the way to do what you hope to do will be clear cut, and sometimes it will be almost impossible to decide whether or not you are doing the correct thing, because you'll have to balance your goals and hopes with feeding yourself, paying debts, finding work, settling for what you can get.

The only people I ever get irritated with are the ones who announce, using my Twitter handle, that they are no longer following me and why.