
Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.

I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.
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[I]t is things that make us happy when conversation begins to reveal itself as a paltry substitute.

Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life.

Never the romance without the bloodshed!

The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content.

He seemed as though he were habitually preparing himself for something awful, and this was justified because many awful things had happened to him.

All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt - you know, I'm an artist, man, I don't do that family stuff - has begun to seem really important.

I am not that creative. And therefore you must be real.

I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.

I have admired Melissa Pritchard's writing for several years now for its wisdom, its humble elegance, and its earthy comedy.

I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.

Updike worked this way, and I just kinda borrowed it from him. So the memoir will be relief from novel writing for a moment.

The past was so past it hurt.

If I'm going to feel estranged and alienated and away from home I don't want anyone interrupting it to debate which berries to have in their pancakes.

Tangled in one another's arms and nine times out of ten the things you think about a person make it impossible to touch them.

I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity.

If God had designed the orchestra, then the cello was His greatest accomplishment.

My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style.

Isn't a tangle of limbs a glorious thing to behold? Don't you wish to be in a tangle of limbs?

I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.

I turned forty, and I'm finally going to get married and maybe have a kid.

I was bent on love the way a crow is bent on a flattened squirrel.

I published a bunch of my older books in e-book format with Open Road, which is great and has tons of hard to find older books available there.

A bed is where a sense of shared purpose first takes root.

Demagnetizing is a fact of life.

God howls with laughter at earthly plans, you know?

I sort of hate the novel when it doesn't push, restlessly, against the tradition and the traditional.

I love comic books and always did as a kid.

I judged about a zillion awards this year so I've been reading a lot of books that just came out.