If you died right now, how would you feel about your life?

Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will fuck you up, every time.

Any time some well-meaning person forces you to demonstrate you have no talent and rubs your nose in the fact you're a failure at the only dream you ever had, take another drink.

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.

The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity. The second most boring thing is honesty.

You always kill the one you love.

As we grow older I always think, why didn't I do more when I was young, why didn't I risk more?