I've always wanted to be a poet at the beginning. I would look at my grandparents' books and my parents' books. And in my family, a typical aspiratio….

People have no idea how much work it is for a man to produce an ejaculation. You have this seminal vesicle churning out this fluid, the prostate glan….

I have an enduring, very robust infatuation with dictators. I have an infatuation with Stalin, Mao, and Mussolini. In the Paris Review interview I di….

Yo! You’re my dope dealer not my thesis adviser. If I wanted your opinion about my dissertation, I’d have asked for it, Motherfucker!.

When you are a child, you often stare too closely at the wrong thing. I remember the first time I was taken to Yankee Stadium. Someone had spilled so….

The interesting thing about something in the back of your mind is that it can travel pretty far back in your mind..

I guess I can picture things once they're done - I just can't picture actually doing them..

It's in great joy that we grasp truth..

When I started, I wanted to be thought of as tortured and seductive, not funny, but humor tends to be a reflexive part of a person's sensibility. It'….

I'm fascinated with video games, though I can't really play them. It's definitely an art form that intrigues me to no end, though..

People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are writing memoirs, writing about….

I've always been entranced with theater..

I think of memory as a game, that is as something one engages in with a very profound kind of "playfulness.".

I think to simply make fun of something isn't particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of something or belittle something or disparage….

You are fiercely heterosexual and well-formed, and it's no one's business that you've shrunk your parents and keep them in a terranium, but you have ….

“Et Tu, Babe” was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer’s life was solitary and insular, and I was happy with that. I love reading and writ….

I was an infinitely hot and dense dot..

Stand-up comedy had an interesting effect on me in terms of how I started to think about constructing things, because I really loved the interstices,….

My work generally tends to be an all-out, 360-degree subversive take on everything, most of all my own notion of myself as a son, father, husband, hu….

So where does the name Adam's apple come from? Most people say that it is from the notion that this bump was caused by the forbidden fruit getting st….

One of the things that struck me as unique about Hollywood is that I never had bad meetings. There were all enthusiastic, but meaninglessly enthusias….