A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the entire life..

I love a good play, but they're too hard to find..

I shake my head and the tiny acrobats fall like spangles, like the cool rain on another planet, down to the inside of my feet..

I'm someone who's really susceptible to tears..

I do everything halfway, a thing of which adults disapprove, but things done halfway are deceptive, and in a class of their own – for instance, ….

we still have the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building and the Woolworth Building, but it just seems like part of the nature of New York, ….

There are characters in [punk] that do deliberately go as far as they can in certain kind of taboo areas..

I like writing non-fiction - and when you pick a [non-fiction] subject, it saves you the hassle of coming up with a plot..

Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later..

Things always change, and New York teaches you that..

Another thing that's good about writing to describe a situation or a state of consciousness is that you can finally get it right. That was my intenti….

When you're young, you don't especially think of yourself as being young. You're just alive and everything's interesting and you don't think of thing….

I've come to think of myself as a writer of books..

I'm not into this memoir craze that's been going on for 20 years now and doesn't seem to ever let up. People just indiscriminately say "memoir" now w….

In fact I thought life was pretty much a losing proposition, and I didn't mind saying so..

An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end..

The purpose of rock n' roll is to convince girls to pay money to get close to you..

I'm usually alone or asleep, at home..

I decided I wanted out because it was killing me, and I couldnt see where to go with it that wouldnt be fatal..

I believe in people treating each other with respect..

If you take text and image and you put them together, the multiple readings that are possible in either poetry or in something visual are reduced to ….