Develop your pawns or Hulk will smash.

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.

When people call something "original," 9 out of 10 times they just don't know the references or original sources involved.

As much as I care about historical context - I'm very eager to read a really great historical account.

What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark.

All paths lead nowhere; choose one with heart...

...Don't rupture another's illusion unless you're positive the alternative you offer is more worthwhile than that from which you're wrenching them. Interrogate your solipsism: Does it offer any better a home than the delusions you're reaching to shatter?