Then again, the name, the associations with a writer's name, can add to the reader's entertainment and pleasure.

I drink coffee. Without coffee, I probably couldnt write.

People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.

I am part of a vast generation of people who perpetually live as if they just graduated from college.

I need to stay in the present and use that new-age mantra: 'I'm okay right now.' But I worry about all the things I'm failing at every moment.

I've always been intrigued by Stockholm Syndrome. Reminds me of my childhood.

Having a show get canceled is like, 'Oh, you have caviar between your teeth,' you know what I mean? Because you had a show in the first place.

Something has happened where you almost never grow up in America. Maybe it's the greater wealth.

I don't really recognise success. I don't see myself as on an upwardly mobile trajectory. I see myself as on the edge of a cliff about to fall off.

Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language.

I am always the source of the worst rumors about myself.

About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not.

We do not know what God is. God Himself does not know what He is because He is not anything. Literally God is not, because He transcends being.

I don't think people ever were free of fear of death, but clinging to life and being so unprepared for it is a modern experience.

Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread.

I just want the money and the fame and the adoration, and I don't want any of the other stuff.

Christianity can be condensed into four words: Admit, Submit, Commit and Transmit.

The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency.