I've come to think of myself as a writer of books.

we still have the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building and the Woolworth Building, but it just seems like part of the nature of New York, that it's always shifting.

Things always change, and New York teaches you that.

Another thing that's good about writing to describe a situation or a state of consciousness is that you can finally get it right. That was my intention, and that's always interesting.

The purpose of rock n' roll is to convince girls to pay money to get close to you.

In fact I thought life was pretty much a losing proposition, and I didn't mind saying so.

I'm usually alone or asleep, at home.

I do everything halfway, a thing of which adults disapprove, but things done halfway are deceptive, and in a class of their own – for instance, the sun is really twice its size.

A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

I shake my head and the tiny acrobats fall like spangles, like the cool rain on another planet, down to the inside of my feet.

I felt just overwhelmed by input: the Vietnam War and the collapse of the '60s and the proliferation of media' it just felt like everything was too much to handle and you just tuned out.

First-class religion teaches one how to love God without any motive. If I serve God for some profit, that is business-not love.

No expectations mean there is no risk of disappointment.

In my mind's eye

I like Dancing of Indian girls more than my parents' prayers . Because they dance with love and passion . But my parents just say their prayers because they got used to it .

If you know that something is true and just, and you give up, thats when you fail.

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

Comedy writing is taking the brief thought and going with it.

Who is able to paint the existence of a dog as Picasso paints the existence of a cubic shape?

I don't want to die but I ain't keen on living either

We're just helping out the Christians by bringing about the apocalypse. They can all go to heaven