It was when I was the age where you can, as they say, "hear voices" without worrying that something is wrong with you. I "heard voices" all the time as a small child.

Such techniques, including meta-discursive stuff, self-reference, irony, black humor, cynicism, grotesquerie and shock, it would be safe to say that television or televisual values rule the culture. Television is successfully using a lot of those same techniques but using them for a very different agenda, which is to sort of create an ethos and please people and to sell products to consumers.

I cannot say what color Lenore Beadsman’s eyes are; I cannot look at them; they are the sun to me.

‎Who would die for this chance to be fed this death of pleasure with spoons, in their warm homes, alone, unmoving?

[I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is.

I'm very bright, but I'm terrified of sounding like someone who thinks he's very bright-because those people are assholes.

It's all very confusing. I think I'm very honest and candid, but I'm also proud of how honest and candid I am -- so where does that put me?