I try to write books that are different from the books I've already written. I think one of the thing I really try to do is reinvent how a novel can ….

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..

Part of me still loves. More of me doesn't..

It's the third book of the Bible, called The Final Testament of the Holy Bible.My idea of what the Messiah would be like if he were walking the stree….

We did what our people do all the time, we told ourselves something we did was right and we found a way to justify it, even though we knew it was wro….

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….

There are no categories in contemporary art. There are no rules. Artists are given the freedom to make and create whatever they please and call it wh….

I will not allow people to impose rules on me that don't make sense to me. And I live and work very much outside the literary world and the literary ….

It started when she passed me a note in English class. The note said you don't seem as awful as I hear you are. I passed one back that read: beware I….

All of us started normal. All of us started out as functioning human beings with the potential to do almost anything we wanted, but somewhere along t….

I want as much time in the darkness as I can possibly have. The darkness provides cover, the darkness provides places to hide and the darkness provid….

I stand, walk over to him, sit down on his bed, put my arms around him, hug him. He hugs me back strong and I can feel the shame coming through his a….

There are no words and there is no singing, but the music has a voice. It is an old voice and a deep voice, like the stump of a sweet cigar or a shoe….

On the other couch a women sits with a young boy looking through a picture book about Babar the Elephant. When I find a magazine and I lean back to s….

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

Some people think memoirs should be held to a perfect journalistic standard. Some people don't. Obviously I don't. My goal was never to create or to ….

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,….

This moment and this chance, they are the same, and they are mine if I choose them,and I do. I want them. Now and as long as I can have them they are….

Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage..

Stay. Fight. Live. Take it. Cry. Cry. Cry..

It's been great getting better with you..