I wonder what language truck drivers are using,
now that everyone is using theirs?

I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.

People get nostalgic about a lot of things I don't think they were that crazy about the first time around

A little public scandal is good once in a while. It takes the tension out of the news.

I see manuscripts and books that are spoiled for the literary reader because they are one long stream of top-of-the-head writing, a writer telling a story without concern for precision or freshness in the use of language. Some of this storytelling reads as if it were spoken rather than written, stuffed with tired images that pop into the writer's head because they are so familiar. The top of the head is fit for growing hair, but not for generating fine prose.

Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.