Wickedly funny to read and morally bracing as only good satire can be.

I'm simply the happiest, the placidest, when I'm writing, and so I suppose that that, for me, is the final answer. ... It's fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats as I am most of the time.

Wickedly funny to read and morally bracing as only good satire can be.

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.

my brain had begun to endure its familiar siege: panic and dislocation, and a sense that my thought processes were being engulfed by a toxic and unnameable tide that obliterated any enjoyable response to the living world.

For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year.

I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil.