Generally as a rule I am not. Unless I am super in love with a particular author, because I just want to read masterpieces. I just want to read one amazing book after another. As a completist you are generally reading the bad ones.

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

I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.

...I wondered if it was blasphemous to tell God that rainbows are kitsch.

There is something so arbitrary about prizes.

The universe doesn't really care if you bounce back. It doesn't feel that weird to write about paralysis or being in hospital or losing a child or, you know, splitting up with your wife, because that's just life.

Regrets came up and asked me if I’d like to own them. Declined them for the most part but took a few just so I wouldn’t leave this relationship empty handed.