Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the best of it.

Perhaps everyone has a story that could break your heart.

On a good day I write, all day.

By the time I'm nine I know the world is a dangerous place. I've heard whispers about razorblades in apples, about Charlie Manson and his family. But no one is offering any clear information.

There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under.

Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness.

I can weep pretty easily. I can get tears in my eyes from a beautiful work of art.

If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that life.

Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink.

Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do.

Who doesn't want to just disappear, at some point in the day, in a year, to just step off the map and float?

You can only write by putting words on a paper one at a time.

The birth of a child is a joy to the parent and the world.

I feel like the torch has been passed to me. The question is what am I going to do with it.

I can't love you as you have been or will be. I can only love you as you are.

The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly

You just go for it and see what works. There are no rules.

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

Audiences don't want to see the kind of self-indulgent, boring dance that is so prevalent today.

In good writing, words become one with things.

To me, horror and comedy never work. Never worked for me, anyway.