I've killed enough of the world's trees.

You have to stay faithful to what you're working on.

God and the afterlife and all that is certainly a subject that's interested me, and I think it interests me more the older that I get.

The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.

And this wasn’t lying, not really. It was leaving out.

A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.

In many ways, Eulah-Beulah prepared me for literary criticism. After having a two-hundred-pound babysitter fart on your face and yell Pow!, The Village Voice holds few terrors.