I hadn't had a perfect moment yet. And it's very important for me to have perfect moments in exotic countries like that... it kind of lets you know when it's time to go home.

One of the ways to reincarnate is to tell your story.

I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City .

I'm kind of this control freak that likes to create his own hells before the real one can get to him

Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.

How theraputic it is to surrond yourself with people stranger than yourself.

I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.

I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.

Real life has always let me down. That's why I do the monologues. I have always said I would rather tell a life than live a life. But I have to live a life in order to tell one.

If I can make people laugh it's like being a good lover.

The only thing I don't doubt is my doubt.

Two easy steps to be a good writer:1. Don't write what everyone is writing.2. Write what everyone is trying to write.

Success and happiness are always missed by those who leave the present unattended to.

I look back on my life like a good day's work it is done and I am satisfied with it.

You write by sitting down and writing. There's no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature. How one works, assuming he's disciplined, doesn't matter.

A lot of people feel very good about Mitt Romney and I think he's going to do a great job.

You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit

For me, the music is always like the small rowboat I get into at the very beginning of my process.

All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste.

Oh, to be a center fielder, a center fielder- and nothing more

I was surprised by how much I loved Portland. It is so wonderfully creative without being artsy. Great food scene.