Real smarts begin when you quit quoting other people.

Make me into anything, but just love me.

We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.

Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.

Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?

I suppose it’s comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse things to yourself than the world will ever dare inflict.

Masochism is a valuable job skill.