Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

The nowness of everything is absolutely wondrous. [...] If you see the present tense, boy do you see it! And boy can you celebrate it.

I also believe in cigarettes, cholesterol, alcohol, carbon monoxide, masturbation, the Arts Council, nuclear weapons, the Daily Telegraph, and not properly labeling fatal poisons, but above all else, most of all, I believe in the one thing that can come out of people's mouths: vomit.

God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.

As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.