You still had to find the music inside your language. You know, it was - that's a big part of what sort of moved me to begin writing the book. I wrote a little essay and I felt, yeah, this is a good voice. This is a good feeling. It feels like me.

Mental illness and creativity are - it's a thin line in between the two. I tend to believe that.

You've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.

When you get fat and lose your hunger. That is when you know the sellout has happened.

I guess my view of America is of a real bighearted country, real compassionate.

Don't take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself.

You can't kill your way to security and you can't lead by scaring people.