Whitney Houston was a laser beam ... She always gave me better than what I asked for in the studio

The really important kind of freedom involves...being able truly to care about other people...

This is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone day in and day out.

Fiction either moves mountains or it's boring; it moves mountains or it sits on its ass.

It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive, day in and day out.

You get to decide what to worship.

I've noticed that, while I can't help but respect and sort of envy the moral nerve of people who truly do not care what others think of them, people like this also make me nervous, and I tend to do my admiring from a safe distance.