I work until beer o'clock.

For every mother who ever cursed God for her child dead in the road, for every father who ever cursed the man who sent him away from the factory with no job, for every child who was ever born to pain and asked why, this is the answer. Our lives are like these things I build. Sometimes they fall down for a reason, sometimes they fall down for no reason at all.

A person's memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It's you.

I identify with the characters very closely. At the same time that I`m outside, writing, I`m also inside, experiencing, and it can be very unsettling.

Anywhere in New York, anywhere in the country, somewhere there's going to be a Coke sign. People identify with Coke. You can write a novel about New York and people from the country will read it if they feel that you've made them familiar with New York.

Your Plan and the stuff that comes out of my asshole bear a suspicious resemblance to each other.

Whenever anything important happens in America, they have to gold-plate it, like baby shoes. That way you can forget it.