I think, living in America, we're so bombarded with God all the time that in certain ways I'm making statements against that bombardment, you know? I….

I'm a writer. I never expected to be recognised on the street. I never expected to get that kind of coverage, good or bad. I never expected to sell a….

People don't want to accept the responsibility for their own weakness, so they place the blame on something that they're not responsible for, like di….

You only live once, buy Picassos whenever possible..

Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work..

In Lilly's eyes her beautiful clear water eyes there is what I have sought and never found, wanted and never had, hoped for and never discovered. Lov….

I, however, like black. It is a color that makes me comfortable and the color with which I have the most experience. In the darkest darkness, all is ….

The past doesn't matter. People cling to it because it allows them to ignore the present..

He tells me I look as if I could use a hugand i laugh at him and he ignores me and steps forward and puts his arms around me and hugs me. I warm at t….

To say that you can't see echoes of the past in what I do would be absurd. Everything that has preceded me has affected me..

I sleep during the day. I still dream about drinking and drugs. Sometimes I wake to a hang-over, sometimes I wake to a trickle of blood from my nose,….

You should at all times be showing a well-motivated character overcoming obstacles in pursuit of a goal..

Practice not wanting, desiring, judging, doing, fighting, knowing. Practice just being. Everything will fall into place..

They had dreams but they called them dreams because they were unrelated to reality, they were a distant unknown, an impossibility, they would never c….

I don't care what people come at me with. People have come at me with everything you could imagine. I could care less about that..

The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any identifiable way disappears and where every moment se….

A miracle is changing someone's life. Freeing them from whatever bonds them. Giving them the gift of being able to live the way they dream of living..

More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to be close to someone. More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to feel as if i wasn't alone..

I regretted making a comment about Dave Eggers. I’ve never said anything about McSweeneys except that I admire what it is, and I think it’s great tha….

I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work..

I can run fast when I want to run fast, and I've always been good at destroying things..