Frankly, I'd rather make a little bit less money if it means living in a better world for books and publishing in the future.

Men will treat you the way you let them. There is no such thing as 'deserving' respect; you get what you demand from people.

I don't want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows and changes and matures.

Halloween revolves around delicious candy, excessive alcohol, and horny women dressed as sluts. This also describes my vision of Heaven.

Opinions are projections.

Critics stopped being relevant when they stopped writing to inform and contextualize, and when they started writing to signal who they are, to display their identity by their stance on what they are writing about. Criticism should never be about the critic, but thats what it has become, and that’s why no one cares about them anymore.

Failure either ruins you, or turns you into the man you can become.