He wanted this someone to see how much he hurt.

I guess my life hasn’t always been happy, or easy, or exactly what I want. At a certain point, I just have to try not to think too much about certain things, or else they’ll break my heart.

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.

It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.

Integrity's a neutral value. Hyenas have integrity, too. They're pure hyena.

Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.

The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage.

The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.

Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.

Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance

When life hands you lemons, get yourself some limes because life can't be trusted.

Kiss me again. Let me imagine for a moment that you belong to me. The memory will keep me company in my solitude.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.

Dating is primarily a numbers game.... People usually go through a lot of people to find good relationships. That's just the way it is.

The Hollywood sirens are shrieking, while down some search lit alley runs some lost belief.

We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.

You used to be much more..."muchier." You've lost your muchness.

It's in being read that a book becomes a book, and in each of a million different readings a book become one of a million different books . . .

Deadlines have a lousy name. Call them live-lines instead. That´t what they are.