She had the wild look of someone who hadn’t slept in twenty-four hours, with purplish semicircles underneath both her eyes. Being eighteen was like being made out of rubber and cocaine.

So much for being a good friend was knowing when to keep your mouth shut.

Maybe that was the answer to good parenting—pretending the first child was the second.

Some people smoked crack in alleyways. Franny ate chocolate. On the scale of things, it seemed entirely reasonable.

There was nothing in life harder or more important than agreeing every morning to stay the course, to go back to your forgotten self of so many years ago, and to make the same decision.

Cats and books are my universe. Both are infinitely fascinating and full of mystery.

Sometimes, an actress maybe knows how to think.

Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.

I love comics, very much, and I love being alone, but I also love the other part. I love actors, and I love filmed entertainment, and that is not something I plan to turn my back on.

Don't educate people; touch them emotionally. Remember that people want to be scared or they want to be made happy or they want to be made sad.

Everything is permitted, everything is allowed, and all our Gods we have outwitted, we are running with the crowd.

The earth exists not for us but for itself; the Sun shines not for us, but for its own life!

It seems quite impossible to walk in America.

I'm a single guy now and can do what I like. As my agent said, so long as it's not a live man or a dead woman, I'll be fine. And that, hand on heart, is unlikely to happen.

I never had a real job either. I sort of fell out of school and ended up playing guitar.