It's hard to win when you always lose.

They have removed the struggle to find anything. And therefore there is no genuine sense of discovery. Struggle is the first thing we know getting along the birth canal, out in the world. It's pretty basic. Book store owners and record store owners used to be oracles, in that way; you'd go in this dusty old place and they might point you toward something that would change your life. All that's gone.

The things you absorb you will ultimately secrete. It's all out there and available for you to enjoy...and be nourished by.

Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.

If you're a writer you know that the stories don't come to you, you have to go looking for them. The old men in the lobby: that's where the stories were.

When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.

You're innocent when you dream.