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

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...

To the resentment that hides inside love, to the loneliness that hides among companions.

It was often this way, life consisted of a series of false beginnings, bluff declarations of arrival to destinations not even glimpsed.

I try not to become too regular an addict of any one subculture.

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.

I want to write books that can be read a hundred years from now, and readers wouldn't be bogged down by irrelevant details.