“Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that.”
“Congrats, bro. You've just sold your soul to the devil. Wait. You don't have a soul.”
“You can't get sentimental about houses. Or bodies. They're just, I don't know, the Tupperware of the soul.”
“People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.”
“I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.”
“Once you start thinking about the lies people tell when they don't know they're telling them, the truths people reveal when they think they're lying, then you can start to build a world.”