Dear God, teach me to be careless.

The cruellest thing you can do to Kerouac is reread him at thirty-eight.

I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.

I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.

It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?

I don't want to be loved. I want to be desired. Love is safety, but desire is foul.

Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood.