Venice is beautiful, but like a Bergman movie is beautiful; you can admire it, but you don't really want to live in it.

I've been screwed and sued and tattooed, and I'm still standin' here in front of you.

The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what function I may once have intended to serve.

I think how badly things can go wrong in our judicial system. All it took was one person saying that this was a deliberately set fire, and then a whole chain of information became malevolent.Criminal past - that worked all in their favor to create this "monster" - and they even used the word "monster." It's like, let's ensure that the public thinks he's an evil individual.

You write fiction, you're writing memoir, and when you're writing memoir, you're writing fiction.

I've always been afraid of saying no to people because I don't want them to be disappointed and dislike me.

I felt like I was some kind of primitive spring-loaded machine, placed under far more tension than it had ever been built to sustain, about to blast apart at great danger to anyone standing nearby. I imagined my body parts flying off my torso in order to escape the volcanic core of unhappiness that had become: me.