If you weren't here, if you could be anywhere you wanted to be, doing anything you wanted to do, where would you be and what would you be doing?

Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.

Many universities have asked me to come for a semester but I don't want to do it because I don't have the patience.

Half the people who snuff people, that's what they want: recognition. Get their picture in the paper.

I couldn't understand a sense of unease that multiplied until I could hear my heart beating.

I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods.

I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.