Nature, or at least birds and women, abhorred the invisible man.

When Rolling Stone handed me this crazy assignment to be in the studio with James Brown, they had the misapprehension that I'd written for them already just because I claimed my character had.

Teenage life - possibly adult life too is all about what you want and can’t have. And then about what you receive and misuse.

Novelists get to direct the perfect films. We get to cast every part. We dress the set exactly as we wish.

It's impossible to overstate how my relationship to music forms a preserve for the esoteric or even spiritual aspect of my relationship to cultural stuff, to human expressivity... it's a safe enclosure.

I don't write about anything I don't love even if that love sometimes gets all screwed up and tormented.

I want what we all want," said Carl. "To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced.