“Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.”

“I’ll piss in a cup for you. You can run a drug test on it, or you can drink it.”

“The cup is half full, sunshine and flowers and I try to act like I agree, but really I’m pissed someone dumped out half of my drink.”

“I want my writing to be as smooth as drinking a glass of water—pool water, with piss in it.”

“And he who has deserved to drink from the ocean of life deserves to fill his cup from your little stream.”

“Writing is the dragon that lives underneath my floorboards. The one I incessantly feed for fear it may turn and devour my ass. Writing is the friend who doesn't return my phone calls; the itch I'm unable to scratch; a dinner invitation from a cannibal; elevator music for a narcoleptic. Writing is the hope of lifting all boats by pissing in the ocean. Writing isn't something that makes me happy like a good cup of coffee. It's just something I do because not writing, as I've found, is so much worse.”