I like to focus on the varieties of paper, the different sizes and watermarks, evidence perhaps of what was typed when and sometimes where and by whom.

I am always looking for some clue, some easily missed sign that might just be the missing piece in the puzzle.

That rewriting of literary history is most obvious in the case of The Yage Letters, where I was able to show that the true history inverts the official one.

It started out as a typically insane idea to map every part of the published text in terms of its manuscript provenance and history, and to establish the cultural meaning of the book, part and whole.

I was suckered in by the myth of the man [ William Burroughs] as much as by his work.

I liked the idea of a person shedding their life, and someone else putting it on. -Oliver Harris on writing The Hollow Man for Crime Time online magazine

A golden spoon is useless when the soup bowl is empty.

Without you everything falls apart. Without you it's not as much fun to pick up the pieces.

I'm constantly striving to break through to something new. You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.

It seems like people get afraid of a certain music if they can't pigeonhole it to their satisfaction... Good music is good music, and that should be enough for anybody.

I have seldom, if ever, seen money and gentleness go hand in hand.

I cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect...always when I have done I feel it would have been better if I had not fished.

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

I don't want riders who work physically hard. Work by thinking.

If we desire a kinder nation, seeing it through the eyes of children is an eminently sensible endeavor: A city that is pro-child,for example, is also a more humane place for adults.