We're all of us haunted and haunting.

It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.

Intellectual culture seems to separate high art from low art. Low art is horror or pornography or anything that has a physical component to it and engages the reader on a visceral level and evokes a strong sympathetic reaction. High art is people driving in Volvos and talking a lot. I just don't want to keep those things separate. I think you can use visceral physical experiences to illustrate larger ideas, whether they're emotional or spiritual. I'm trying to not exclude high and low art or separate them.

Ask yourself: What did I eat for breakfast today? What did I eat for dinner last night? You see how fast reality fades away?

Someone bent on suicide won't have much sense of humor left.

I think America is just so in love with conflict.

Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things - they save you.