Max Apple

I carry earplugs and use them even when it's quiet.

I've always been writing.

A volume of stories, bereft of continuity in plot and character, is often unified only by the writer's obsessiveness.

I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.