"The furthest out is the only place to be."

-- Stanley Elkin

“Memory is never complete. There are always parts of it that time has amputated. Writing is a way of retrieving them, of bringing the missing parts back to it, of making it more holistic.”
“A thought is an idea in transit.”
“Don't emphasise money if you don't have much; be happy”
“I was always thinking the funny things but was always quiet and scared to be made fun of.”
“There’s no point in being unhappy about things you can’t change, and no point being unhappy about things you can.”
“So if there was a way that I knew something about my character's desires or the things that they were resisting because I was saving it for some grand epiphany moment for my readers, I just feel like that's when you can feel the machine at work in a story. That's when you can feel the writer pulling the strings of the puppet.”
“Second place is just the first place loser.”
“And Christ was born into the world as the literal Son of this Holy Being; he was born in the same personal, real, and literal sense that any mortal son is born to a mortal father. There is nothing figurative about his paternity; he was begotten, conceived and born in the normal and natural course of events, for he is the Son of God, and that designation means what it says.”

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