True success is figuring out your life and career so you never have to be around jerks..

Life is a rotten lottery..

If you can make someone laugh who's dead set against you, that's the first step to winning them over to your side..

Without obsession, life is nothing..

My idea of rich is that you can buy every book you ever want without looking at the price and you're never around assholes. That's the two things to ….

I don't trust anyone that hasn't been to jail at least once in their life..

Don’t sleep with people who don’t read..

To understand bad taste one must have very good taste..

A psychiatrist once told me early in treatment, "Stop trying to make me like you," and what a sobering and welcome smack in the face that statement w….

I want to be harder to reach, not easier..

Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it's the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and….

So many great people are dead, and so many assholes I know are still alive. Karma's bullshit. I wish it was true, but it ain't..

It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good….

When they throw the water on the witch, she says, “Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness”. That li….

I always say you need something weird on your face and some good shoes and nobody looks in the middle..

As far as socially redeeming value, I hope I don't have any..

Technique is nothing more than failed style..

I always want to see films that are startling and amazing. Not just shocking. Shocking is easy to do. But startling in the way that makes you change ….

You should never read just for "enjoyment." Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends' insane behavior, or ….

I like rap music. But bragging about being rich to poor people is really offensive. I want to hear a rap song about buying a Cy Twombly painting or d….

I like art that challenges you and makes a lot of people angry because they don't get it. Because they refuse to look at it properly. Rather than ope….