I know I was a generic dysfunctional child, but I think a lot of people are.

I think the most "passionate" I get about actual humans are the ones I want to kill.

With a book, there's no volume to turn up. You're very naked with a book.

Now you see how you are, the wisdom mixed in with all the scars.

When you title yourself, you immediately lend yourself to all kinds of pretension

My mother taught me how to read very early on and at school I was ahead of everyone in class... Reading was always something that I liked because I could do it alone and I was alone a lot of the time with my mother working the hours she did. Books became my friends very early on.

Scott Asheton was a brilliant drummer, a natural musician.