Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain.

I was never either pro-culture or counter-culture. I was in a kind of middle state.

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.

The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.

When birds look into houses, what impossible worlds they see.

I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone.

I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.