“For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hun...” — Garth Risk Hallberg Quote

For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.

I had one week in the fall of 1996 where I was like, 'I'm America's greatest living teenage poet.'

A fragmented film such as 'Babel' gives the impression of 'edginess' but, in its form, tells us nothing we didn't already know.

You don't have to subject yourself to the sweep and rigor of Bourdieu's book 'Distinction' to feel how thoroughly a lower-calorie version of its ideas has been absorbed into the cultural bloodstream.

At 14 and 15, I was sort of my town's resident beatnik.

I never really try to put my own faith in someone else's hands.

The world is in your hands, now use it.

Models are just mannequins seeking validation at the hands of sleazy fashion people.

I don't think an NC-17 rating is the kiss of death. Nor do I think that, in the hands of the right filmmakers, studios have a preconceived notion to pass on NC-17 material.

Keep your hands moving. Writing is rewriting.