My own theory is that people are just so desperate for somebody they can feel better than, in America. Now that everyone's going broke and working 17 jobs - if they have one at all - at least they can look at these guys behind bars and think, "At least I get to wear my own clothes to work."

I always figured I myself would never be lucky enough to die, I'd just live on and on in this increasingly dreary spiral.

I need - and occasionally love - to write for the same reasons I always did: hard as writing is, it's generally easier than life.

You can't really compare hells. But I suppose the hell of being strung out on another person's addictive behavior is its own special thing.

Creativity is the opposite of TV

To me, God is like this happy bus driver.

I think that a lot of people are in love with stress. It's the dirty little secret of Western civilization. People often mistake stress for fuel.... to me, stress is just another bad drug that I don't want to do.