As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form. Certain styles of narrative don't conform to m….

I think as I have gotten older, my feelings about my role in the culture as a writer, and me specifically, has changed, and has become more degraded ….

Sometimes I think my purpose is as a saboteur when I'm working with other people, derailing what they're trying to do or taking things to a ludicrous….

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

I was an infinitely hot and dense dot..

“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….

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….

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..

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….

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

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….

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….

I've always been entranced with theater..

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….

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!.

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 ….

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,….

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….