If you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane.

Picture anybody growing up so stupid he didn't know that hope is just another phase you'll grow out of.

There's a big difference between "not caring" or being "nihilistic" about a topic and simply not being enrolled by the drama presented by other people. Just because my characters choose not to react in standard, socially-appropriate ways - that does not mean they don't care. They just reject ordinary dramas.

Inspiration needs disease, injury, madness.

Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

A knife, it felt like a knife, and I'd discovered that despite everything that's happened, I still had an endless untapped potential for getting hurt.

The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're about as free to act as a programmed computer. You're about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill.