My father was always talking about God, and I idolized my father, so I'd spend hours trying to have mental telepathy with God.

Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.

Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.

I hated the makeup. I hated all that pancake makeup. I didn't really like dressing for parts.

[Steven Sebring] presence was also nice for my children, who, having just lost their father, quite naturally craved warm male attention. They gravitated to him right away.

If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer...When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep...An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.

I was so horny in school it felt like my body was filled with electricity. I felt like I had neon bones or something.