Public taste changes and the aesthetic of a culture changes over time, so the idea isn't to appeal to the aesthetic of the moment and what people will like right now; the idea is to somehow keep yourself in the public memory so that as taste evolves it will eventually come to embrace your thing. So, it's about writing to be remembered rather than writing to be liked.

These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.

Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.

Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. And there's no escaping from constant escape. Distracting ourselves. Avoiding confrontation. Getting past the moment. Jacking off. Television. Denial.

As the stupidest person in the room, I always had the most to gain.

Tyler and me at the edge of the roof, the gun in my mouth, I'm wondering how clean this gun is.

I will never write a sequel to anything that I will ever write.