Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up.

The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.

I was gushing and I knew it. I surprised myself with my eagerness to please, felt myself saying too much, explaining too much, overinvolved and overexcited in the way you are when you're a kid and you think you've found a soul mate in the new boy down the street and you feel yourself drawn by the force of the courtship and so act as you don't normally do and a lot more openly than you may even want to.

Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material.

I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and turn it around again.

The danger with hatred is, once you start in on it, you get a hundred times more than you bargained for. Once you start, you can't stop.

And as he spoke, I was thinking, 'the kind of stories that people turn life into, the kind of lives people turn stories into.