Though energy and inspiration diminish, experience grows - the theme of parents and kids, for instance.

When L.A.’s schizophrenia between Dreamland and Utopia was becoming socially manifest, the United States, which was always a place, went to war with America, which was always an idea.

a dream is only a memory of the future

Western music is arguably America's greatest contribution to the 20th century, cultural or otherwise.

If I had it to do all over again . . . I wouldn't change a thing.'. . . the final expression of narcissism, the last gesture of self-congratulation.

By the plain form of my delirium I will blast the obstruction of every form around me into something barely called shadow. I sail. I swim to you. I know the water.

In LA, you think you're making something up, but it's making you up.

To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake.

Is the humanism intuitive or labored over?, the answer is: Yes. It begins intuitively, it becomes the reason for writing the thing, and then it's to be considered and fine-tuned and even calculated.

While I do believe I become a technically better writer over time, in others ways writing gets harder because inspiration is finite.

For better or worse I'm the writer I am today because of hearing those Dylan records. For better and most certainly not for worse, I'm the person I am today because of hearing Charles.

Talent is always more interesting - ambition is not interesting. If you have talent, you have to find ways of expressing it, but you may not be a success in the world's terms.

When you stand and share your story in an empowering way, your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else.

Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself.

Just writing and being in the studio was like therapy for me.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

It's great to have a private jet. Anyone that tells you that having your own private jet isn't great is lying to you.

There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, So just give me a happy middle And a very happy start.

I love animated films when they are good, because they do bring a lot of emotion and heart that's very difficult to get in a live action film.

We must re-center philosophy within our frame of reference which I think is the way to deal with it.

No. I don't have the patience, and I'm not very tactful. People say I can be frightening.