A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.
It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the bone.
If you can't laugh when things go bad--laugh and put on a little carnival--then you're either dead or wishing you were.
No one can be as intellectually slothful as a really smart person
Once again there was the desert, and that only.
So what, ghosts can't hurt you. That's what I thought then.