“You might say that success ruined me. You might say I ruined success.”

“This was, I sometimes thought, the last gift my father gave me. And the best: His death stood out as the supreme-o excuse for fucking up, for being a successful fuck-up.”

“I know it sounds lame, but I have to dig the way you think, and I have to feel you get me. My whole fucking life, I pretended I could relate to chicks so I could get into their pants. Then once I got in, all I wanted was out again.”

“This is what I think: If you had the nerve to live what you lived, you should have the nerve to write it.”

“Let me tell you something. Boring women get a bad rap. There's a lot to be said for boring women.”

“That's the thing about people you loved. They disappeared on you. I didn't know much at the ripe old age of fifteen and a half. But, for better or worse, I knew that.”

“Half the reason I turned into a writer is you didn't have to show up anywhere. You could work naked.”