Perhaps everyone has a story that could break your heart.

On a good day I write, all day.

By the time I'm nine I know the world is a dangerous place. I've heard whispers about razorblades in apples, about Charlie Manson and his family. But no one is offering any clear information.

There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under.

Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the best of it.

Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness.

I can weep pretty easily. I can get tears in my eyes from a beautiful work of art.

If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that life.

Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink.

Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do.

Who doesn't want to just disappear, at some point in the day, in a year, to just step off the map and float?

He wrote me a note to say we would create art together and we would make it, with or without the rest of the world.

Disease is the biggest money maker in our economy.

People don’t need you to fix them, they are not broken, just serve them.

Different people have different opinions, and it's okay to respect all of them.

The person I liked the best was Gerald R. Ford. He was the most decent man in politics I ever had any relationships with.

I don't want this big stardom thing. I just want a good script.

Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of every ten members of the human race are swine, and as crooked as a hog's tail.

So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.

Just as the police review their operational tactics, so we in the Home Office will review the powers available to the police.

Chess is like a language, the top players are very fluent at it. Talent can be developed scientifically but you have to find first what you are good at.