When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of a higher honor for a writer.

Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.

The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children, in other words we never stop clinging to life because we are life.

If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.

You run risks. That's the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny's whims.

Being alone makes us stronger. That’s the honest truth. But it’s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.

Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.