#m

But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like going to a Paris Review party or whatever, that seems totally irrelevant now. ↗

— Rick Moody

#going #i #important #incessant #irrelevant

I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity. ↗

— Rick Moody

#details #finally #gave #i #i always

I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century. ↗

— Rick Moody

#back #boston #century #england #fact

I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way. ↗

— Rick Moody

#comes #defy #down #hard #i

I love comic books and always did as a kid. ↗

— Rick Moody

#books #comic #comic books #did #i

I made this list of stuff that it's time for me to try to do. ↗

— Rick Moody

#list #made #me #stuff #time

I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order. ↗

— Rick Moody

#faith #highest #highest order #i #order

I turned forty, and I'm finally going to get married and maybe have a kid. ↗

— Rick Moody

#forty #get #get married #going #i

I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable. ↗

— Rick Moody

#i #make #makes #memorable #more

It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be. ↗

— Rick Moody

#doing #exactly #great #happened #i