What's funny about Jesus' Son is that I never even wrote that book, I just wrote it down. I would tell these stories and people would say, You should write these things down.

There was a part of her she hadn’t yet allowed to be born because it was too beautiful for this place

I was probably 35 when I wrote the first story. The voice is kind of a mix in that it has a young voice, but it's also someone who's looking back. I like that kind of double vision.

After the film it was raining, a light steady rain. Ruthless neon on the wet streets like busted candy.

And you, you ridiculous people, you expect me to help you.

I feel very privileged to hear how somebody used to run around stickin' people up and stealing cars, and now they're gettin' their life back together... I just love the stories. The stories of the fallen world, they excite us. That's the interesting stuff.

English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows.