I knew that I did not want to go to that juvenile diversion program because I had an intuitive sense that it would turn me irrevocably into the kind of character that I was now only rehearsing to be.

I’m not afraid of the real truth. There is nothing you can tell me about yourself that is going to make me clutch my pearls.

How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother?

Be careful what you get good at doin', cuz you'll be doin' it for the rest of your life.

You are always going to face forces that can bring you to your knees.

I was purely content to sit in the car and wander around my own mind. Watching the world itself, the people in it, and my whole internal life was more than enough to keep me entertained.

My father has said a hundred times, and I have paid attention, that it's stupid to let money be the reason you don't do something.

Badass is a juvenile aspiration.

My parents seemed incredibly special and outrageously handsome to me then.

This is the crepe. This is the cider. This is how we live and eat.

[I] like to be anchored by routine, not shackled by it.

Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.

…there is not a day of my life that I am not critiquing myself to see if my politics are borne out in the way that I live and the way that I talk and present myself.

The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.

All people should learn to say as well and "No" as an answer not only "Yes". One moment you will fill your whole life with the stuff which you are accepted.

Tantra is for the desperate. Unless you've really experienced pain and suffering, tantra won't work. Unless you've really experienced exultation and ecstasy, tantra won't work.

The last time money left the art world, intrepid types maxed out their credit cards and opened galleries, and a few of them have become the best in the world.

There seemed to be no end to this wood, and no beginning, and no difference in it, and, worse of all, no way out

I find that no matter how long a meeting goes on, the best ideas always come during the final five minutes, when people drop their guard and I ask them what they really think.

Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.