Inspiration needs disease, injury, madness.

Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.

Everyone has something wrong. And for a while, her heart just sort of flat lined.

There will always be an underground.

There's an old saying: 'No piece of writing is ever finished, it's just abandoned.' But my own rule is: No piece of work is done until you want to kill everyone involved in the publishing process, especially yourself.

When you're an addict, you can go without feeling anything except drunk or stoned or hungry. Still, when you compare this to other feelings, to sadness, anger, fear, worry, despair, and depression, well, an addiction no longer looks so bad. It looks like a very viable option.

To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost.