I've enjoyed, to a certain extent, any country I've been in, of course like Serbia and Croatia can be very restrictive and oppressive, and frustrating, but they're still very beautiful.

Anyone who wants to help me doesn't. Anyone who wants to kill me might. Anyone who wants to love me better not.

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

I'm mellower now, I'm over 50. But I don't think I'm too mellow. I'm still angry at a lot of things.

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

It's hard to judge literary merit.

The only thing worse than the Pastor Terry Jones scheduled Koran burning is the fact that he canceled the proposed event.