The kernel, the soul - let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances - is plagiarism.

The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory.

There's never any percentage in being ahead of your time.

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

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

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

Comics? Honestly, that's more a matter of nostalgia for me. I think most of that energy has gone to my love of literature, and my love of film...