I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.

We all have a tendency to want order in our lives. But order presupposes authority, and authority presupposes, sooner or later, that we'll all need hooves. It's going to happen sooner or later, isn't it? You know it is.

Hemingway sucks. If I set out to write that way, it would have been been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me.

God wiped snot out of his nose and that was you.

Jesus watches from the wall, But his face is cold as stone, And if he loves me As she tells me Why do I feel so all alone?

It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in the middle of the room. Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.

I am in trouble here. This woman is not right.