Let’s not mince words: the inside of the Sydney casino looks as if Vegas had an illegitimate child with Liberace’s underpants, and that child fell down a staircase and hit its head on the edge of a spade.

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

We were on our way to the twentieth floor, sharing the elevator with two suits that had men inside them.

Once a year I try writing a poem, usually because I've read some poetry that amazed me and I want to do that.

Losers blame their parents; Failures blame their kids.

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

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.