Writing is extremely personal, and that's the joy of it for me.

When I die, now don't think that I'm a nut, don't want no fancy funeral, just one like old King Tut.

It's so hard to believe in anything anymore, you know what I mean? It's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously, 'cause it seems so mythological, and seems so arbitrary; and then on the other hand, science is just pure empiricism, and by virtue of its method, it excludes metaphysics. I guess I wouldn't believe in anything if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch.

I've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone.

You can't make something beautiful by trying to make something beautiful. Something becomes beautiful in the process of trying to be something else.

I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.

In talking to girls I could never remember the right sequence of things to say. I'd meet a girl and say, Hi, was it good for you too? If a girl spent the night, I'd wake up in the morning and then try to get her drunk.