I sort of hate the novel when it doesn't push, restlessly, against the tradition and the traditional.

I made this list of stuff that it's time for me to try to do.

Updike worked this way, and I just kinda borrowed it from him. So the memoir will be relief from novel writing for a moment.

I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.

There’s something really rich and powerful in not talking about what you need to talk about sometimes.

I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity.

Cool is spent. Cool is empty. Cool is ex post facto. When advertisers and pundits hoard a word, you know it's time to retire from it. To move on. I want to suggest, therefore, that we begin to avoid cool now. Cool is a trick to get you to buy garments made by sweatshop laborers in Third World countries. Cool is the Triumph of the Will. Cool enables you to step over bodies. Cool enables you to look the other way. Cool makes you functional, eager for routine distraction, passive, doped, stupid.