Dad is always hiding in his book.

I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.

Anyone at any age is able to tell the story of his or her life with authority.

Because like all whores you value propriety. You are creature of capitalism, the ethics of which are so totally corrupt and hypocritical that your beauty is no more than the beauty of gold, which is to say false and cold and useless.

Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

Most people are quiet in the world, and live in it tentatively, as if it were not their own.

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.