There are bodies buried everywhere you just have to know where to look.

Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.

I can manage my own pain. I can drink. I can go to the doctor and get a prescription. I can exercise. I can write a story about it. I've done it a million times! But I don't want to see the people I love tortured and suffering.

I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.

Don't rush or force the ending. All you have to know is the next scene, or the next few scenes.

Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't.

I always thought I'd write when I retired - when I turned 65. But by the time I was 33, to tell you the truth, I was a little bored with drugs and sex, and I thought I'd do the writing thing.