There are as many kinds of love as there are flowers and bugs put together but men and women and their needs are all the same.

We born dyin'...But you ask a man an' he talk like he gonna live forevah.

The police and I have a deal. I don't talk to them and they don't listen to me.

Writing is almost a place of dreams for me, and I don't have to give up anything to do it.

The job of the writer is to take a close and uncomfortable look at the world they inhabit, the world we all inhabit, and the job of the novel is to make the corpse stink.

I believe that a writer has to tell what they think is the truth in a human experience. The truth of the human experience cannot escape the political.

I used to worry about money and career and what was going to happen. How was I gonna succeed or fail in the world? And I thought about it enough that I'm no longer worried about it. I'm not... I don't worry about what's gonna happen in my life. I don't worry about telling me about dying, my own mortality. That's a given.