The word "elegance" is a bit different now.
When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.
Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings.
There was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they found the strength to prevent themselves from succumbing every second. Rightfully, the world should be a whirlpool of kissing into which we sank and never found the strength to rise up again.
In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.
I certainly have written a lot about police in my life, and it's not only something that I know about, but always something that interests me.
One must not be shy where language is concerned.
I do not judge the universe.
The truth is, for however much my stories come out of things that have happened to me, they're not darkly or as deeply personal as someone like Marc Maron or a lot of comedians, but they are essentially my life and my interpretation of it.
We always try to remember that at the end of the day, it's just cookies. Don't stress that hard, because it's a terrible thing to take home with you.
Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own.