I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to, even, but it could still feel big.

What's the point of having a book club if you don't get to eat brownies and drink wine?

In the wintertime I like macaroni and cheese.

An ellipsis is a giant ocean of possibilities.

I find that short stories are almost like palate cleansers, or brain cleansers.

You can quit smoking, and never have to have a cigarette again to survive. But with food, it is a daily challenge.

I love doing readings. I could really give a crap about reviews. It's kind of about the readers.

I remember being banned from other houses as a younger child during the winter holiday season; I was the only one who didn't believe in Santa Claus, and I was ruining everyone's Christmas.

In 1998, I started a blog, something I could control very easily and update at my own whim.

I'm not that much of a researcher. I'm good at channeling characters, and I'm good at structure.

Smart, sharp, and hilarious, Slaughterhouse 90210 is the perfect pick-me-up and never-put-me-down book.

Let your work speak, Let your work scream, Let your work live, Forever.

Without love life will be a flower garden without flowers.

I realized during some of the darkest moments of my life, that the most beautiful and precious happiness in the world is the Joy of Giving.

Live happy in lovingkindness.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills.

The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he is hardly below even the poet.

I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Because if something does go wrong, you'll need what you're feeling to matter, to someone somewhere, anyway.

Oh, a passing, skeptical kind of interest. I'm a hammer-and-nails kind of guy.