Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction.

New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun.

In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America!

The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.

You hold onto what you have; you do not give it up easily, even when you know it is poisoning you.

You can only maintain an immensely gothic attitude for so long before either killing yourself or beginning to feel like a poser.

Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.

I can't heal your pain but I can see it. And you don't have to be lost. Not forever.

Young writers shouldn't be afraid of striving to emulate their favorites. It's a good way to learn, as long as you move on from it and don't publish too many of the results.

Never relinquish your terrors. That's when they catch you.

Ive tried to avoid labels, but they always find you.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

The only way to stop a nightmare is to open your eyes, if perchance you realize you were dreaming

You don't know how good you are until you actually get out on a bike and get riding.

In the street, people talk to you about all kinds of things, but by far, the most number of people talk to me about Love, Actually.

We love and we feel and we try and we hope.

We think there is an ecological problem, but the real problem is irresponsible growth of human population.

There are so many good guitarists out there, I am by no means a very good guitar player.

Who designed this world we live in?

I think we're always intrigued by things we're not familiar with.

You talk about what a director, he was smart. He said, Turn the camera on!