Other people must be destroyed. In order that I might truly face the sun, the world itself must be destroyed.
You have two things happening: You have the cultural and economic reality of men falling apart and traditional masculinity falling apart.
We have never been more detached from one another, or lonelier. In a world consumed by ever more novel modes of socializing, we have less and less actual society. We live in an accelerating contradiction: The more connected we become, the lonelier we are.
The wilderness within us is actually the best part of us.
Only idiots or snobs ever really thought less of 'genre books' of course. There are stupid books and there are smart books. There are well-written books and badly written books. There are fun books and boring books. All of these distinctions are vastly more important than the distinction between the literary and the non-literary.
The first things that babies can notice is sex; the first thing that you can tell about a person when you see them walking down the street is their gender.
Toronto may be the only city where novels are integral to high art, the alternative scene and mainstream culture all at the same time.
I hope you're not smoking in front of her,' Lucia says to him. 'Yeah, I lie in bed and puff in her face, Lucia,' he says, irritated.
He hadn't a cent in his pocket, but he had faith !
[Early on,] the attitude was that what I was doing wasn't music.
(About Love)The most important thing in life, and you can't tell whether people have it or not. Surely this is wrong? Surely people who are happy should look happy, at all times, no matter how much money they have or how uncomfortable their shoes are or how little their child is sleeping; and people who are doing OK but have still not found their soul-mate should look, I don't know, anxious, like Billy Crystal in When Harry Met Sally; and people who are desperate should wear something, a yellow ribbon maybe, which would allow them to be identified by similar desperate people.