It's not like I was an alkie or anything. Alcohol is for cleaning needles

Half the reason I turned into a writer is you didn't have to show up anywhere. You could work naked.

Creativity is the opposite of TV

How do you write when you're not miserable? The solution, of course, is to make yourself miserable about not writing.

There's no deodorant for desperation.

I think it's just too kinda juicy and compelling to imagine people in their private lives, but then half the time people's private lives are just so much more bizarre and Ted Haggard-like than you could ever imagine. It's almost hard to write fiction anymore.

I think there's a phenomenon of people who want to be around something that seems "dangerous." It makes them feel more real.