To me, God is like this happy bus driver.

All my life I'd gone for women who were a little off.

You may think you don't want to throw your life away for mere fleeting euphoria. But, once you get a taste, it doesn't feel so mere. From then on the planet becomes a waiting room. The rest of your life devolves to no more than the time between highs.

This is what I think: If you had the nerve to live what you lived, you should have the nerve to write it.

I didn't really start publishing books until I was 40 because I was busy being a McDonald's employee. So there's always a sense of trying to make up for lost time.

This is, I believe, what happens when people take their own lives. They're not killing themselves, they're killing the world. Either to spare it pain or to cause it some, depending.

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