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

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.

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.

There's always tons of crap music people are trying to sell us - [it's] the same way with publishers and galleries.

New York exists for me. Not me for it.

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

I'm sure we're going to find out one day that the brain is as worthless as the appendix.