Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.
From Chuck Palahniuk
Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.
The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring.
If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.
Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.
Every decade, we get a stunning collection of dynamic, heartbreaking short stories. In the past, those collections came from Barry Hannah, Mark Richard, and Thom Jones.
My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly - all these make for great stories.
The first step to eternal life is you have to die.
My goal is never to make fun of religion.
You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.
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