I find it a huge strain to be responsible for my tastes and be known and defined by them.

I guess my life hasn’t always been happy, or easy, or exactly what I want. At a certain point, I just have to try not to think too much about certain things, or else they’ll break my heart.

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.

It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.

Integrity's a neutral value. Hyenas have integrity, too. They're pure hyena.

Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.

The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage.

The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.

Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.

Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance

When a self-evident truth is presented, don't surprised when self-centeredness fights back...

I imagined calling in to my own radio show: Yeah hi, I'm a werewolf, and I'm stuck in a cabin in the woods with another werewolf and a werewolf hunter.

What a child digs for becomes his own possession.

Death reveals that the world is not as it should be but that it stands in need of redemption. Christ alone is the conquering of death.

I stand before you a weekend version of your reflection begging for direction, for my soul needs resurrection.

Harley-Davidson is the finest company in the world.

Supporting local food production is so much healthier for people. It's better for the local economy, and it's a lot of fun.

How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

I would often be a coward, but for the shame of it.