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I promote my own self-hatred.
For me, the past is dead. Can't go back.
There's no shortage of material in life.
I hid my underwear beneath a parked Peugeot.
To write about a place, you have to live there.
I don't like to publicly acknowledge being a Jew.
I have very few hobbies. In fact, I have no hobbies.
I am always the source of the worst rumors about myself.
I drink coffee. Without coffee, I probably couldnt write.
I drink coffee. Without coffee, I probably couldn't write.
It seems like the original 'Star Trek' could have gone on longer.
It's hard for me to think of writing a novel, because it takes so long.
Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language.
For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone.
I wish we had a dog in the show so that I could get to be a dog for a day.
I've always been intrigued by Stockholm Syndrome. Reminds me of my childhood.
I'm actually much more shy and self-conscious than people's perception of me.
As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that.
Something has happened where you almost never grow up in America. Maybe it's the greater wealth.
I don't laugh that much, but I do like humorous books, and I like to entertain readers that way.
A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape.
There are so many talented young writers named Jonathan, with whom by comparison I suffer terribly.
I am part of a vast generation of people who perpetually live as if they just graduated from college.
I'm on the verge of a total breakdown. Sciatica. Taxes. Cars. Fleas, possibly. It's an absurd existence.
People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.
The reason it's hard for me to tweet is I don't want to pronounce anything, and Twitter is for pronouncing.
Then again, the name, the associations with a writer's name, can add to the reader's entertainment and pleasure.
Mostly I have to try to censor myself so as not to write things that will hurt other people, or that will go too far.
A lot of readers have actually helped me, been really sweet to me... So maybe my cry for help has sometimes been answered.
I didn't play or like a lot of board games as a child. I liked playing with my G.I. Joes and making up adventures for them.
I've really never written about my relationships, or things like that. I wouldn't want to divulge things that were too private.
It's hard to leave New York: this is where my friends are, my parents are. It is so vital. The whole world seems to look to New York.
I've always been inspired by Don Quixote as a role model of sorts, of the power of books to sort of make you insane in maybe a beautiful way.
I need to stay in the present and use that new-age mantra: 'I'm okay right now.' But I worry about all the things I'm failing at every moment.
Having a show get canceled is like, 'Oh, you have caviar between your teeth,' you know what I mean? Because you had a show in the first place.
I don't really recognise success. I don't see myself as on an upwardly mobile trajectory. I see myself as on the edge of a cliff about to fall off.
I always liked those characters in 'True Blood' who could turn into animals. I'd love to be an animal of some kind and run quickly through a forest.
I'm a somewhat isolated person in my own way, or I move along a little trail, I go this place, I go that place. It's not like I'm varying my exposure.
The work changes the way your face changes and ages - it just does. Also, I have very little connection to anything I've written. I move on. We all move on
I might have some sort of personality disorder. I might not have proper filters; it might be some kind of version of Asperger's meets Tourettes meets prose.
Unfortunately, I'm one of those idiots who knows everything about health and is in a constant state of alarm, and yet I continue to do everything I shouldn't do.
It was one of those days when every time I went to go out the door, something grabbed me in the back of the brain and said, lie down and masturbate one more time.
I wish I was the kind of writer who would go to a war zone and write about something that's meaningful and important to people, but that's not my area of coverage.
Don't hold me to anything in the book. I'm a waffler. I like wafflers. They said John Kerry was a waffler, but I admired him for that - showed he could change his mind.
I don't know that I've gotten much feedback directly from the literary world; sometimes I doubt even the notion that there is a literary world, though I guess there is or was.
I've always liked police-blotter kind of writing, or the writing of a policeman, right to the point and hardboiled. That's how I see at least the prose elements of scriptwriting.
I don't mind being ridiculed - well, I guess I would mind a little, but it would only last a few minutes - it's all very ephemeral; it doesn't really matter what people think of me.
For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me.
I don't like rides. I take everything in life quite literally, and so I genuinely feel terrified on rides and liable to vomit at any moment, and I hate to vomit even more than I fear rides.
A lot of writers, probably because they're sensitive, which makes them want to be writers, have fears about their masculinity, so they overcompensate by having an interest in boxing and tough-guy things.