Unlike the vast majority of people, I've been locked in a box like an animal and I've also been on the receiving end of bloody thrashings, so I feel uniquely qualified to judge which is worse.

I think my sense of humor is Jewish. I'm smarter than most white people, which is kind of a Jewish thing, too.

I certainly didn't emerge from prison regretting anything I ever wrote, nor did I feel remorse for my crime in the least.

I was exposed to violence while I was still in the womb - my father punched my mother in the stomach while she was pregnant with me.

When I write, I strain with every wizened fibre of my weathered frame to analyze every possible angle of any given subject.

What's good and bad, sweet spirit, are in the eye of the beholder.

I'm developing a mild rash at the idea of "plugging" anything, because it's not how I roll.