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- These stories are ghosts, bringing people back from the dead. Just for a moment. For a visit. Every story is a ghost.
- If you flee from the things you fear, there's no resolution.
- Our real discoveries come from chaos,
- I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the…
- When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?
- A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
- The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring.
- I take a lot of flak from the counter-establishment for selling out.
- If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's…
- If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality…
- Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great…
- You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories.…
- As young people we want something to slow us down and keep us trapped in one place long enough to look below the surface of…
- I say let me never be complete, I say may I never be content,I say deliver me from Swedish furniture, I say deliver me from…
- Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.
- Yes, these are bruises from fighting and I'm okay with that.
- It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little…
- What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor…
- I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of…
- The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays…
- There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your wife get old…
- I'm not sure what we're running from. Nobody. Or the future. Fate. Growing up. Getting old. Picking up the pieces. As if running we won't…
- Tell the world what scares you most. Save the world with some advice from the future.
- When we die, these are the stories still on our lips. The stories we’ll only tell strangers, someplace private in the padded cell of midnight.…
- How can you possibly believe he really loves you?” Miss Sneezy looks from the Mother to the Saint to Mr. Whittier’s hand.“You have no choice,”…
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