I write fiction""What’s fiction?""Fiction is an improvement on life.

being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.

There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.

As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People diminished me, they sucked me dry.

Her one drink had Cecelia giggling and talking and she was explaining that animals had souls too. Nobody challenged her opinion. It was possible, we knew. What we weren't sure of was if we had any.

The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd.

People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.

Goodness could be found sometimes in the middle of hell.

I didn't like anything. Maybe I was afraid. That was it - I was afraid. I wanted to sit alone in a room with the shades down. I feasted upon that. I was a crank. I was a lunatic.

I began to feel like a kept man and it felt great.

You're the most unknown famous man I ever met

If it weren’t for physics and law enforcement, I’d be unstoppable.

She gave me for my pains a world of sighs.

advertising is the price you pay for having unremarkable product or service

I don't want to have a song like 'My Humps' and it be sagging down, so I pay attention to that area. A lot.

For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to?

I won the wintergirl trip over the border into dangerland.

The biggest thing I have learned is you can't take anything for granted. You have to work as hard as you can every night, regardless.

Press on, press on, men.

Our whole society's a training ground for addicts.

The more I give myself permission to live in the moment and enjoy it without feeling guilty or judgmental about any other time, the better I feel about the quality of my work.