The truth is, wherever you choose to be, it's the wrong place.

So often with beginning writers, the story that they want to start with is the most important story of their life - my molestation, my this, my horrible drug addiction - they want to tell that most important story, and they don't have the skills to tell it yet, so it ends up becoming a comedy. A powerful story told poorly becomes funny, it just makes people laugh behind their hands.

Peter used to say that an artist’s job is to make order out of chaos. You collect details, look for a pattern, and organize. You make sense out of senseless facts. You puzzle together bits of everything. You shuffle and reorganize. Collage. Montage. Assemble.

You spend your entire life becoming God and then you die.

Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly -- all these make for great stories.

I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more.

To hell with housework, our top priority has always been between our legs.