When you work at home, fellow alums, discipline is the supreme virtue. Suicidal self-loathing lurks behind every coffee break. Activities must be exp…

- Sam Lipsyte

No emotion or insight is too small to inflict on the world. Let it all fly. Don't let it eat you from the inside.

- Sam Lipsyte

Shudder, in fact, is not quite the word for the feeling. Feeling is not quite the word for the feeling. How's bathing at knifepoint in the phlegm of …

- Sam Lipsyte

This country was built on the backs of dudes who drank on buses. What we do honors them.

- Sam Lipsyte

One of my big revelations was that nobody cares whether you write your novel or not. They want you to be happy. Your parents want you to have health …

- Sam Lipsyte

Atticus Lish is a true original and this is a tremendous book, relentless, moving, written in prose of marvelous integrity. Now that America and the …

- Sam Lipsyte

Write what you know. Write what you don't know. But most of all, write what you'd rather not know.

- Sam Lipsyte

I'm a citizen of the republic of empathy.

- Sam Lipsyte

I'd become one of those mistakes you sometimes find in an office, a not unpleasant but mostly unproductive presence bobbing along on the energy tides…

- Sam Lipsyte