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.

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.

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

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Good will never be enough as long as great exist. Don't look to do better than anyone else aim to do better than your old self.

When the mind is steady, it will not create any vibrations, and therefore one will get the result. Along with that, if there is purity of chit, then one will surely be able to get his work done.

Women are women, and hurray for that.

I'm not a big fan of anniversaries.

I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn.

There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed.

Whatever trips you make, you must still have nature in your eye.

Dope and diamonds, dope and diamonds, that's all that I want

Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.