Part of me still loves. More of me doesn't.

You only live once, buy Picassos whenever possible.

I just started trying to figure out how to write [something] which was unlike anything anybody had ever seen, and once I felt like I had figured that out I tried to figure out what kind of book I could write that would be unlike anything anybody had ever seen. When I started writing A Million Little Pieces I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.

The best stories are universal stories that have been told for as long as humanity has existed it's just figuring out new ways to do it, with language, with structure. And so I'm always trying to do that.

I don't care what people come at me with. People have come at me with everything you could imagine. I could care less about that.

That's what ever great writer, I believe, has done over the course of time - is they've figured out new ways of telling the same stories.

I go to my Room and I drink and I smoke some cigarettes and I think about her. I drink and I smoke and I think about her and at a certain point blackness comes and my memory fails me.