Action is hope. There is no hope without action.

I'm trying to teach people of all ages to, number one: how to criticize, how to offer creative analysis on top of that, how to try to build things in a new direction and how to compliment people when the thing gets done.

He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning too long and now collapsing and now blown out.

Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do-and they don’t. They have prejudices.

You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

I feel like I’ve been saving up a lot of things, and I don’t know what.