Metafiction says something. It has to do with taking a large fiction itself and writing within it; that kind of self-reflecting writing that emerges from it can be thought of as metafictional.

We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates.

The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it.

My disenchantment? Oh no, my dear, there are no disenchantments, merely progressions and styles of possession. To exist is to be spellbound.

I see no reason to stop writing. But the reason isn't always one of your own. The mind is not invulnerable, and it can lose some of its powers.

Some ways of naming a generation are fruitful and some are not. Postmodernism is not. It doesn't really say anything.

I learned my realism from guys like Kafka.

What we got is NOW, Huck, and now is forever. Until it ain't. So, you can't worry over nothing except putting off the end a your story as long as you can, and finishing it with a bang.

No, the safest thing is to become an island. To make your house a citadel against all the garbage and ugliness in the world. How else can you be sure of anything?

So many commands in the Bible require obedience without us experiencing any conviction to obey them. That is when our faith is truly tested.

sleep is such a luxury, which i cant afford.

Being a parent is amazing.

If you really want to know how a person will operate, look at how they've lived their life.

Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.

All safe deposit boxes in banks or financial institutions have been sealed... and may only be opened in the presence of an agent of the I.R.S.

True strength isn’t in killing—or ignoring—your opponent, it’s in having the will to shield those who need your protection.

I don't like the intellectual label.

Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost ... perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself about that little precious fragment as well.