Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.

They were not my friends, after all. They were just the people I went to school with.

With pornography, if you don't get hard or wet, depending on your gender, it didn't work. With humour, if you don't laugh it didn't work. And with horror, if you don't get scared or haunted, depending on what it's trying to do, it didn't work. I'm fascinated by those three categories.

I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.

If you were to try and pick him out of a group of boys, you’d be wrong. He’d be the other one. Over at the side. The one your eye slipped over.

She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful.

I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don’t need anyone to believe in us. We just keep going anyhow. It’s what we do.