"It’s very hard — weirdly hard — to clear your mind of all that crap so that you can just sit down and write and find that place where you’re just involved and enjoying the imaginary place you’ve disco..."
- Dan Chaon
"You really romanticize the white-trash period of your life,' Rain once said to me, which I thought was a little hurtful but perhaps true."
"The desire to remake that shrinking expanse of life they were still allotted, to make use of it, to fill it up with possibility. Oh please: one more transformation."
"The true terror Jonah thought the true mystery of life was not that we are all going to die but that we were all born that we were all once little babies like this unknowing and slowly reeling in the ..."
"Your Mom's Car. Think about that. Try to wrap your brain around the supernatural and spiritual implications that the name bears down you. Your Mom's Car, holding its hand out straight, fingers curled,..."
"It had occurred to him that if the undead don't realize that they are dead, he might easily be one of them himself."
"We leave such a trail of bodies through our teens and twenties that it's hard to tell which one is us. How many versions do we abandon over the years"
"I've been talking to myself a lot lately. I don't know what that's about, but my mother was the same way. She hated to make small talk with other people, but get her into a conversation with herself a..."
"I never understood why people from the 1980s thought there would be flying cars. It just seemed really dangerous and impractical to me, but they all talked about it, so it must have been a thing. Mean..."