The millions or billions of micro decisions that you're going to make, that's what will determine who you are as a writer, not you deciding in advance.

I'd just say that truth is power and vice versa.

Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.

If you want to be good, all you've got to do is be good.

I think this is the other big issue that is not going away: Do we really believe that bit in the Constitution or not? I think we do.

I'm always nice when I do drugs. But, you know, I'm nicer on the drug called "writing."

What I really found myself interested in was the idea that our minds our so powerful and when we're living, the mind is dampened by the body. As crazy as our minds can get, they're only so crazy because they're physically housed.