I think of my body as a side effect of my mind. Like a thought I had once that manifested itself-- Oops! Oh no! Manifested. Look at this. Now we have to buy clothes and everything.

Part of my gestalt is that I still feel a little bit like a wallflower. Even in my own life. I talk about myself behind my back.

Come to think of [a handsome young carpenter], Harrison Ford used to be a carpenter.

A lot of people have told me, you know, that what I've written about, they identify with strongly.

Of course I miss [drugs]. And anyone who tells you they don't is lying.

I always think of Meryl [Streep] for everything now. There really aren't many actresses around who are truly lucid the way she is.

I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.