People mistake their limitations for high standards.
What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.
I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
I watched the entire O.J. Simpson trial, and he was guilty.
Our mistakes are legion, but our talent is immeasurable.
People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper.
I originally just wanted to be an artist.
I've always liked Muir without knowing quite why.
They took my mother's stomach out six months ago.
When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar.
A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
All great art is a form of complaint
There's no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just.
I apply paint directly from the tube and with my fingers.
There’s no such thing as technology in the singular, only technologies in the plural.
Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.
