You don't have to follow anybody's rules..

It’s just this sense that you got something to say..

Early on in life I knew that I was a writer, that I just wanted to write, I love books, I love literature and after graduating college, I kind of wan….

There are no indisputable truths..

Boston is not an avant garde place. It stays literally 15 to 20 years behind New York at all times..

The works of nature must all be accounted good..

I've never fabricated or plagiarized anything..

Taking away from someone else will never make you any better..

I have this thing that, once I finish a movie, I never see it again..

Smiles come best from those who weep..

A lot of stuff I do, 10 years later it becomes popular..

I literally in the New York flea market - just when I was despairing of ever having a great serendipitous find - found a 1926 Chanel..

Everything is in New York or L.A. or whatever, but Chicago is more of, like, a real world. It has the art and the music, but it's more centered and g….

Initially I borrowed the word "perverse" for my works from Roland Barthes, meaning pleasure-driven and not geared to inform or promote a service or a….

Always destroy what is in you..

What am I a prostitute? Am I your prostitute? You can't prostitute me..

I do idiosyncratic dramedies..

The rottenness comes from within..

We had no domestic attacks under Bush..

That's life again. We can't decide what we like..

There are as many sorts of women as there are women..