I'm really close to my mom, but things with my dad have been different. He has dementia and watching him change, I've actually started to think that …

- Blake Butler

I think language is a system that we have devised to negotiate a series of more amorphous entities. It's a layer you can use to see where those thing…

- Blake Butler

I use the word "god" a lot, and I'm not sure if I know what I believe god is. I don't believe that when we die, that's it. It's almost like a logical…

- Blake Butler

I am a serial monogamist of sorts, and have been with my girlfriend for almost four years. In imagining my brain back to worlds where I might be arou…

- Blake Butler

I'm not an escapist, but the value of language is that it can create places that did not exist before. And so language for me doesn't reflect the wor…

- Blake Butler

I like smartasses, because I can be smartass back and rashy.

- Blake Butler

When I was a kid my primary goal in life was to find a book that was alive. Not alive in the human sense, but like a thing that would send me to a pl…

- Blake Butler

My love is inside me where my fat was.

- Blake Butler

About twenty pages into Luke B. Goebel's Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours, I realized I was reading with one hand holding my forehead and one…

- Blake Butler