People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.

Having a show get canceled is like, 'Oh, you have caviar between your teeth,' you know what I mean? Because you had a show in the first place.

I promote my own self-hatred.

A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape.

From age 23 to 44 - I'm 45 now - I was always in need of money, and I was especially in need of it from 23 to about 34, and my great aunt would always give me money, a hundred bucks, every two months or so, and a lot of times that hundred bucks made a huge difference - I could eat or pay a small bill. It kept me going. She gave me money. It was very loving.

Unfortunately, I'm one of those idiots who knows everything about health and is in a constant state of alarm, and yet I continue to do everything I shouldn't do.

It's hard to leave New York: this is where my friends are, my parents are. It is so vital. The whole world seems to look to New York.