You don’t have the slightest idea of what it means to write a scene and a character in the English language, with images and words chock full of received meaning.

I've never related to the work geek at all-it sounds much more horrible than nerd. Like a freak biting a chicken's head off in a sideshow.

I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously.

Good films demand to be looked at several times in order to be observed completely.

I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I was drawing a lot as a kid.

I definitely care about how the concept of New York punk was constructed, and why it mattered. But I wasn't gonna do that. Partly because I'm not a great journalist...

There's something about the rhythms of language that correspond to the rhythms of our own bodies.