There's A Hazardous Sadness To The First

I Think The Mission For The Writer Is To Tell Stories In A Compelling Way About The Stuff That Cannot Be Talked About, That Cannot Be Gotten At With Shallow Media.

I Voluntarily Inflicted A Certain Level Of Insanity On Myself.

The Mekons Were Kind Of Like The Background Music Of My Life.

His Tiredness Hurt So Much It Kept Him Awake.

Fiction, I Believed, Was The Transmutation Of Experiential Dross Into Linguistic Gold. Fiction Meant Taking Up Whatever The World Had Abandoned By The Road And Making Something Beautiful Out Of It.