“For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a contr...” — Nicholson Baker Quote

“For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.”

“I ordered a Kindle 2 from Amazon. How could I not? There were banner ads for it all over the Web. Whenever I went to the Amazon Web site, I was urged to buy one.”

“I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had to relearn everything. I started writing songs. Some were dance and trance songs (I listen to them a lot while I'm writing), and some were love songs, because that after all is what music is about - dancing and trancing and love and love's setbacks.”

“Growing up, I was in and out of trouble in group homes and other institutions, and when I was 14, I was locked up in a psychiatric hospital for a number of months for behavioral problems.”

“We were the first small American jazz group since Sidney Bechet in 1927 to play for the public in Moscow and Leningrad.”

“It's always best when everyone in the group is on the same page.”