You can't run away from home without destroying somebody's world.

What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul.

If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.

I'm never quite sure if I'm me when I'm dressed up.

When I was very young, I would occasionally stick 'f****' where I knew something contentious might happen so that the editor could remove the word 'f***' very proudly and leave whatever else was around it.

Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a crammed adult closet, but they are never lost for good.

When things go wrong, this is what you should do. Make good art.