First catch your Boer, then kick him.
The thing about the 'Melrose' novels is that I have to feel they're impossible when I set out.
Irony is the hardest addiction of all. Forget heroin. Just try giving up irony, the deep-down need to mean two things at once, to be in two places at once, not to be there for the catastrophe of a fixed meaning.
No pain is too small if it hurts, but any pain is too big if it's cherished.
Surely: the adverb of a man without an argument.
Looking after children can be a subtle way of giving up. . . They become the whole ones, the well ones, the postponement of happiness, the ones who won't drink too much, give up, get divorced, become mentally ill. The part of oneself that's fighting against decay and depression is transferred to guarding them from decay and depression. In the meantime one decays and gets depressed.
It seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one point they get to be right.
Jazz is the language of the emotions.
Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.
I remember as a kid being scared of the things that go bump in the night, but I was way more scared of adults.
I was always in bands before, but on 'American Idol,' it was about getting my voice out there. It was always my goal, though, to get a band together again.