If all I ever wrote about was inner city freaks, I think it would be dishonest.

There is nothing more boring than people who love you.

I don't know anybody who does what I do. I'm very underground.

I'm not hip, I'm not cool, I'm not glib.

I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975.

I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I thought I was being idealistic.

If all I ever wrote about was inner city freaks, I think it would be dishonest.