The strength of your memory dictates the size of your reality

If I basically view criticism as sort of an interesting form of writing about oneself, an interesting form of autobiography, then I don't feel any pressure to have any kind of authoritative, universal voice. That kind of thing has never interested me.

People can demand someone they've never met be arrested and thrown in jail forever because they know it's never going to happen and they're never going to see this person.

Booze is the greatest of all equalizers. Rich drunks and poor drunks both pass out the same way.

The villain is the person who knows the most but cares the least.

I would hate for climate change to be accepted simply because everyone was dying.

As an adult, the only people who care about horror movies are academics. No one loves to talk about horror films more than somebody with a Ph.D. in cultural studies at a university.