“Books can be terrible snobs.”
“I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.”
“An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger. ”
“I can be a badass DJ when I want, but I am also an insufferable music snob.”
“Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save you. To be without the slightest subject for a book, the slightest idea for a book, is to find yourself, once again, before a book. A vast emptiness. A possible book. Before nothing. Before something like living, naked writing, like something terrible, terrible to overcome.”
“Snob corrupted.”