Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.

[L]ove, having no geography, knows no boundaries.

Oh Jesus God we did belong to each other. He was mine.

It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing.

Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.

Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.

One day, I started writing, not knowing that I had chained myself for life to a noble but merciless master. When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended solely for self-flagellation... I'm here alone in my dark madness, all by myself with my deck of cards - and, of course, the whip God gave me.