It takes just as little time to see the positive side of life as it does the negative side.

I've always found drugs and alcohol somewhat pedestrian. It's like, I don't need an external agent to open my mind. I'm here, conscious, alert, present. Why would I alter that?

I've got a Caribbean soul I can barely control, and some Texas hidden here in my heart!

Found a shaman in a diaper with a poppy pot. When I asked if he was cold, he said just think hot.

Mirror that lies, mirror that lies, that can't be me in the gorilla disguise.

[Writing] is edit, edit, edit. It's almost like getting a boat ready to go to sea. You've still got a countless number of things left to fix, but you've just got to go, "O.K., everybody get on the boat. We're going, ready or not."

Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time.