I read Noam Chomsky. I like some of Gore Vidal's stuff.

I have a bit of a rebellious nature.

I'm a paranoid schizophrenic. I am my own entourage!

Poe had this curious kind of alchemical courage, where he took all the terrible things and terrors that happened in his life, all this shame and fear and pain, and turned them into great works of art. He was a complex, brilliant person who was just wired too tight.

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.

My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.

All the choices we make in our life are pointless. There’s no escaping the inevitable.