There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness.

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

What you said about the sweetest pain? That fits us.

The good news is that as fragile as fearlessness may be, it is also a personal quality that we can foster in ourselves.

And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.

State and local law enforcement are the primary protectors of the health, safety, and welfare of the people in the individual states.

RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids.

You make a movie for 9k for the freedom it allows you.

I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part of the soul raised above the vulgar.

Classical theology has erred in its insistence that theology be 'God-centered,' not 'man-centered'.

I'm in my prime. There's no goal too far, no mountain too high.