I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell - they have that look.

Yo! You’re my dope dealer not my thesis adviser. If I wanted your opinion about my dissertation, I’d have asked for it, Motherfucker!

“Et Tu, Babe” was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer’s life was solitary and insular, and I was happy with that. I love reading and writing, it’s my whole life.

Sometimes I think my purpose is as a saboteur when I'm working with other people, derailing what they're trying to do or taking things to a ludicrous extremity.

One of the things that struck me as unique about Hollywood is that I never had bad meetings. There were all enthusiastic, but meaninglessly enthusiastic.

I think to simply make fun of something isn't particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of something or belittle something or disparage something.

I was an infinitely hot and dense dot.

The interesting thing about something in the back of your mind is that it can travel pretty far back in your mind.

It's in great joy that we grasp truth.

I think of memory as a game, that is as something one engages in with a very profound kind of "playfulness."

My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers.

Dreams are debris from bad day. Dreams are poems by bad poets that never got written.

Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it.

The journey to the center of your soul doesn’t start in your heart. It begins in your brain, and taking it makes you among the bravest of the brave for it’s a place only the rare dare venture.

I’ve always looked like this—in between. Is there ever an age when a person looks exactly like themselves?

Sometimes my entire life has felt like one long exercise in lowering my expectations.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

Evangelism, in its purist form, is an overflow of worship.

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

Very small investments can release the infinite potential that lies in all of us.

Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking.