Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.

Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend.

Women are terrified of being raped, but somewhere in the back of the womb there is one rebellious nerve end that tingles with curiosity whenever the word is mentioned.

And the whole Bush family, from Texas, should be boiled in poisoned oil.

I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right.

Don't have sex in the lobby - it's usually awkward.

I haven't found a drug yet that can get you anywhere near as high as a sitting at a desk writing, trying to imagine a story no matter how bizarre it is, [or] going out and getting into the weirdness of reality and doing a little time on the Proud Highway.