[Rewriting is] a whole other art form; it's about craftsmanship.

I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.

When you consider all the writers who never even had a machine. Who would have given an eyeball for a good typewriter. Any typewriter. All the ones who wrote on a matchbook covers. Paper bags. Toilet paper. Who had their writing destroyed by their jailers. Who persisted beyond all odds.

Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster.

I don't want to be a playwright, I want to be a rock and roll star.

Words are tools of imagery in motion.

Love is the only disease that makes you feel better.