A positive attitude means all the difference in the world.

I try to excite myself so I stay crazy.

How do you resign yourself to something that will never be? You stop wanting just that thing. You go numb. Or you kill the agent of desire.

You are a victim of the rules you live by.

I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.

Fear is the most elegant weapon, your hands are never messy

Disgust is the appropriate response to most situations