" Why do you think I'm obsessed with this idea of giving the world an alphabet-soup enema?' (This was our code language for wanting to be a writer.)
After a very long, Viennese pause, he said, 'Why do you think you are?'
And I said, 'I don't know...Prolonged exposure to radiation from violent events in deep space? "

― Mark Leyner , Gone with the Mind