“I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.”
“[N]othing is as surprising as life. Except for writing. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the only consolation.”
“There are some things you can’t learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life... the only college where everyone is a permanent student.”
“I went to college, but I learned to write by reading and writing.”
“I don't have any regrets, really, except that one. I wanted to write about you, about us, really. Do you know what I mean? I wanted to write about everything, the life we're having and the lives we might have had. I wanted to write about all the ways we might have died.”
“I majored in Creative Writing in college. Then I got over it.”