The writer’s life is a life of revisions.

I guess my life hasn’t always been happy, or easy, or exactly what I want. At a certain point, I just have to try not to think too much about certain things, or else they’ll break my heart.

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.

It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.

Integrity's a neutral value. Hyenas have integrity, too. They're pure hyena.

Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.

The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage.

The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.

Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.

Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance

GLOUCESTERNow, good sir, what are you?EDGARA most poor man made tame to fortune's blows, Who by the art of known and feeling sorrowsAm pregnant to good pity.

Women are so perverse. Look how they won't wear black when nothing suits them so well!

I always kind of wanted to go into healthcare.

I know that I will always regret it later in life if I had turned down the chance to play at another great club like Real Madrid...

There is always something to miss, no matter where you are.

I'm not interested in being known as the singer from Led Zeppelin.

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

[A cat] will lie the whole evening on your knee, purring and happy in your society.

Who said that artists should sell their soul, expose everything about themselves?

If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.