"it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply."
"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"
"If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it."
"The first draft of anything is shit."
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places."
"If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed."