The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
There are very few innocent sentences in writing.
The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during the first eight pages.
Words and a book and a belief that the world is words...
No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.
It's not what you lift, it's where you carry it.
For me, art that's alive and urgent is about what it is to be a human being.
If an art form is marginalized it's because it's not speaking to people.
Writing fiction takes me out of time. I sit down and the clock will not exist for me for a few hours. That’s probably as close to immortal as we’ll ever get.
How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.
Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies.
There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says "Morning, boys. How's the water?" And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes "What the hell is water?
The integrity of my sleep has been forever compromised, sir.
Psychotics, say what you want about them, tend to make the first move.
Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.
Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.
When a solipsist dies ... everything goes with him.
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