That's how we slide, and while we slide we blame the world's problems on colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, corporatism, stupid white men, and America, but there's no need to make a brand name of blame. Individual self-interest: that's the source of our descent, and it doesn't start in the boardrooms or the war rooms either. It starts in the home.

Friendships are an unforseeable burden.

Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice.

After all, memory may be the only thing on earth we can truly manipulate to serve us, so we don't have to look back at ourselves in the receding past and think, What an arsehole!

There's nothing perplexing to me about a leafy shrub evolving out of the big bang, but that the post office exists because carbon exploded out of a supernova is a phenomenon so outrageous it makes my head twitch.

I enjoy being influenced by other writers.

I was so happy I wanted to fold all the people into paper airplanes and fly them into the lidless eye of that big yellow moon.