You know the reason I love the stars is because we can't hurt them: we can't burn them, we can't melt them , we can't make them overflow, we can't flood them or burn them up—so we keep reacing for them

People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret.

I think illusion is one of the most interesting things that I've found to think about. Just look at yesterday, and what you were doing, and how important it was, and how nonexistent it is now! How dreamlike it is! Same thing with tomorrow. So where are we living?

I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.

I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it.

I just sort of wish people would dance differently. It reminds me of teenage sex.

As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.