When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive.

The more you own, the more it owns you.

Every single record I have is a fossil.

I think I am the most impressed with writing styles that defy category, like Kharms or Selby, Breton or Jarry, where you become as interested in the writer as much as the writing itself. It's all these things that make reading so appealing to me.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

I have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascinating as it is turbulent.

The first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became afraid of everything. I was afraid of my parents, afraid of my classmates, afraid of the streets of Washington, D.C. I would flinch at every gesture.