I didn't become a drug addict because I always had to make a movie.

I don't like heroin, unless you're a jazz musician and then you have to be on it because jazz is the sound of heroin.

My idea of an interesting person is someone who is quite proud of their seemingly abnormal life and turns their disadvantage into a career.

Technique is nothing more than failed style.

Maybe there is no better novel in the world than Denton Welch's In Youth Is Pleasure. Just holding it in my hands, so precious, so beyond gay, so deliciously subversive, is enough to make illiteracy a worse social crime than hunger.

I couch-surfed for years. But I always wanted to live in Baltimore; I still do. If I had to choose, it would always be Baltimore.

I want to be harder to reach, not easier.