So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere else and start anew. I wasn't like my parents. I didn't have any supposedly sacred piece of land or shoals of friends to leave behind. Nowhere has the number zero been of more philisophical value than in the United States.... and when the [train] plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with it's lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal.

You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.

There is this feeling that I have a destiny far away from the shallow and preposterous posing that is our life.

It was headquartered in Michigan City, a long way off. I never saw Ku Klux Klan march.

What everybody is well advised to do is to not write about your own life, this is if you want to write fast. You will be writing about your own life anyway but you won't know it.

I wanted all things to seem to make some sense, So we could all be happy, yes, instead of tense. And I made up lies, so they all fit nice, and I made this sad world a paradise

There is nothing left of him but curiosity and a pair of eyes.