Thank God there's somebody that doesn't like Stuart Scott. I'm so happy!. It was nice to have that counter-balance to ESPN.

Death is the only thing keeping us in line.

I took time in the day to write as much of the book as I possibly could. I didn't write too much at night, because I don't like to - I'd rather watch TV.

I had to be happy with the process of writing.Each step you take is more rewarding than the one before.

You cannot hide from the world. It will find you. It always does. And now it has found me. My split second of immortality is over. All that's left now is the end, which is all any of us ever has.

For every hour a mother gets to herself, a father will demand five times that amount for drinking with friends and acting like an immature dipshit.

If you have a great characters, you can always have your character do nothing or do something stupid, and people will still follow them, because they're so real and so tangible.

I've hated cockroaches my entire life.Tweeting jokes about it helps me cope, in a way. I'm not as jumpy killing cave crickets as I used to be. I still jump plenty though.

I wanted to write a book that maybe had the potential to go beyond the Deadspin and KSK [Kissing Suzy Kolber] readership.

With toilet books, people don't review them that much. They don't really pay much attention to them. It's just like, "Oh, okay. I'll put this in your stocking."

I know I still had to take money from my parents, because no one can afford to live in Manhattan, not even the rich people.

The whole purpose of education is to transfer and transform knowledge for the future generations so that they can transcend their lives and humanity as a whole.

Love is proved the moment you let go of someone because they need you to.

Stop pretending to be something you're not. FREE YOURSELF. You are good enough just the way you are.

Some writers are born. Others learn. I was born a writer but have a lot to learn.

He that hopes not for good, feares not evill.

Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?

The other day I started to take a course in psycho-ceramics. What is psycho-ceramics? It's the study of crackpots.

Anyone can build a house: we need the Lord for the creation of a home.

I love being a struggling artist; it makes me feel very alive.

History is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place.