I just realized that I never look at a painting and ask, 'Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?' It’s just a painting.

It's weird. People want you to know that they write. They want you to know they're a musician, rather than making music or making stories. It's the strangest thing.

You can write songs about your comic books and the girl or boy you sort of know and your mom and dad and it's all right there in front of you.

I think a pretty good modus operandi is to believe that everything we know is wrong. The stomach will be the key to depression or consciousness or we'll realize ants are smarter than people.

We like something because someone else liked it.

Most book things now (with a few exceptions) are just built around nice, safe books written for nice and safe book club readers. These are usually the books you see on display at Barnes and Noble. These Internet writers are like literary terrorists to me. They're training as we speak. They're getting ready to invade. They're building an army.

Most of the answers to the world could be answered with our bodies.