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

At 17, all I wanted was to be a famous junky. Like all my heroes.

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

Creativity is the opposite of TV

There was a weird intimacy, sitting in a car together. Couples sat in cars. Cops and their partners. Strangers became unstrange, sharing a windshield view of the world.

In my family, misery didn't just love company, it wanted hostages.

Rumi will transform you, in ways you didn’t know you needed transforming.