If you want everything to be nice and straight all the time, then go live in a world made with a triungular ruler.

It's a dark, cool, quiet place. A basement in your soul. And that place can sometimes be dangerous to the human mind. I can open the door and enter that darkness, but I have to be very careful. I can find my story there. Then I bring that thing to the surface, into the real world.

I'm kind of a low-key guy. The spotlight doesn't suit me. I'm more of a side dish--cole slaw or French fries or a Wham! backup singer.

I'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this was it.

My father always told me: 'Give somebody a hand and he'll take an arm.

If you really want to know what's happening here and now, you've got to use your own eyes and your own judgment.

[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.