“Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a blank piece of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.”

“Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.”

“Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.”

“Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves. ”

“A book is never finished; it's abandoned.”

“What is the song, the pop song? Is it a conduit to give out the feeling in a compact form, a short form? Shorter is better because it is physically much easier to share. A slogan verse a book, single versus record. What if it's blank white with really no cover? That leaves the meaning clear. wait? It's more vague. With no hints to intentions. Except that maybe the intention was to seem vague or not to have a cover. Maybe just there's no cover And if the children cared then the children are pissed. You said you wanted pop but instead you got this....”

“In the feudal fiefdom of school, rank was determined early. You could change your hair and clothes. You could, having learned your lesson, not write a paper on Julius Caesar entirely in iambic pentameter or you could not tell anyone if you did. You could switch to contact lenses, compensate for your braininess by not doing your homework. Every boy in school could grow twelve inches. The sun could go fucking nova. And you'd still be the same grotesque you'd always been.”