More than one side? You're Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Jackass!

Think of spoiled cat food and ulcerated cankers and expired donor organs. That's how beautiful she looks.

A baby is such a blank slate, like training the understudy for a role you're planning to leave. You truly hope your replacement will do the play justice, but in secret you want future critics to say you played the character better.

We've spent so much time judging what other people created that we've created very, very little of our own.

The answer is there is no answer.

I always really curious to see how people interpret things. I know my version, and I'm kind of bored with my version so I want to see their version.

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.