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.

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

The secret to living in the rush of the world with a minimum of pain is to get as many people as possible to string along with your delusions.

People are unjust to anger - it can be enlivening and a lot of fun.

The book really comes to life in the rewriting.

I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.

Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.