Desks are terrible places, no matter how many wheels a chair might have. You can't do much about how drawers fill up.

You get tired of always wondering anew why life has to take the place of youth.

Mike Topp is a disablingly funny writer--a miniaturist of nervous precisions, our supreme abridger of metropolitan startlement and inner fidgetry. He dazes and graces us.

What could be worse than having to be seen resorting to your own life.

The writer, as I see it, has the right of way, so it's up to the reader to look out.

My writing isn’t a career or a craft or a hobby or anything like that. It is more like a tiny annex to my life, a little crawl space in which I occasionally end up by accident in the dark.

If I have a problem, it is this: there is a store where everything costs a dollar.

I was a great many far cries from myself.

I've been within an inch of my life.

I prefer the sorts of words that go their own way and are very choosy about where they end up. They don't fall for the first frillily syllabled thing to come along.

Dylan Nice's Other Kinds is the most extraordinary short-story-col lection debut I have read in years. It is a book to be memorized.

Art can only progress towards its own self-annihilation.

Don’t be afraid to live life. There is grace for the living.

Every time someone starts a project he is considered nuts, until he beats all the odds and laughs the last.

I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.

I really learn from something that really inspires me and it becomes something that I remember.

You never forget your first kiss. And that's what makes it so hard to forgive my uncle.

Collage is a demonstration of the many becoming the one, with the one never fully resolved because of the many that continue to impinge upon it.

Intuition is often mistaken, but not altogether.

And people who know me would tell you that away from hockey I'm really not that competitive.

Learning is but an adjunct to ourself, And where we are our learning likewise is.