I think literature is somehow both a fantasy and a reality we should all get back to.

A book is basically just symbols arranged to form this story, this world. But on the other hand, books, novels, literature in general, is what shows us at our most human.

The more we get away from believing and studying literature, the worst we become, the more we lose our soul.

Death is terrifying and beautiful, a final thing we can all do together.

I'm a white guy listening to the Cure and thinking about Pynchon influences.

What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.

I have a lot of compact discs. I need them for radio play and convenience. Many bands and artists I am a fan of don't always release their work on vinyl, so I take what they feel like giving me.

I think if we all acted the way we felt, four out of eight people at a dinner table would be sitting there sobbing.

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

It's a war to control our children. State control through drugs, just as practiced in the Soviet Union. With Hillary [Clinton] and Tipper [Gore] leading the charge!

I'd like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates.

Social media has created a historical shift from the historically powerful to the historically powerless. Now everyone has a voice.

We will draw the curtain and show you the picture.