It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.

Anyone over the age of thirty catching a bus can consider himself a failure.

I guess I've always written more from the opposite perspective, that kind of existentialist perspective which argues that existence precedes essence. And there really isn't anything essential in there - you're the product of your actions, which can always change. And they retrospectively make you one way or another.

I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.

Fate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable narrative, written, produced and directed by somebody else.

For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost.

A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world.