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

So many doors forever. There were never enough. Each door had several locks. One lock was combination. Another required keys. Another was a simple si…

- 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

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

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

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

- 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