Somehow I had turned myself into the worst thing in the world: I was just another man who wanted to teach me something!

When I was in high school, and even to a degree while I was in university, I wasn't on the Internet. So it's not as embedded in my soul, that kind of way of being.

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

There's so much writing I could have done and so many ideas that I had and so many things I wanted to work on that I didn't. I like too much having things in my head rather than doing the work.

It's nice to go into your doom. It's so liberating.

Then if he's sore with me, let him dump my ass. That will just give me more time to be a genius.

It has long been known to me that certain objects want you as much as you want them. These are the ones that become important, the objects that you hold dear. The others fade from your life entirely. You wanted them, but they did not want you in return.