"Liberating" is a gay word, so let's phrase it this way: I know everything about me and still manage to be good friends with myself, so nothing anyone says that's truthful about me ever bothers me.

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 don't think fatherhood's changed me so much as it's conjured protective instincts I've had all along.

I'm still an obsessive personality, and I still think I'm right, and I still believe my literary balls hang far lower than nearly anyone else's alive.

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

You have to be careful because those feelings and bitterness can take over and consume in a bad way.