For a pure sense of being tumultuously alive, you can't beat the nasty side of existence.

I kept waiting for him to lay bare something more than this pointed unobjectionableness, but all that rose to the surface was more surface

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

He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.

I am the Raskolnikov of jerking off – the sticky evidence is everywhere!

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and I turn it around again. Then I have lunch. Then I come back in and write another sentence. Then I have tea and turn the new sentence around. Then I read the two sentences over and turn them both around. Then I lie down on my sofa and think. Then I get up and throw them out and start from the beginning.