“A deserted library in the morning - there's something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are there, resting peacefully.”

“I was a student at Berkeley in the late Reagan years. We had a lot of ideas back then, big dreams about getting famous and destroying the "Beigeocracy" that we thought stifled and controlled American Letters. Everything seemed possible then: world war, literary fame … Anyway, something Really Big, with us at the center of it all.”

“Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?”

“People get the wrong idea about me, they think I'm depressed or something - I'm not depressed. I don't wish that I was dead, I wish... that you were all dead.”

“Resorting to connecting the dots this morning because it was a long night & he needs to do something really simple to get started again.”

“I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows.”

“…at the end of the day, nothing makes me feel more positive than something I can get really pissed off about.”

“It’s important to feel good about yourself. This morning I met somebody I really like—me.”

“Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries.”

“It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.”