A friend is someone who knows where all your bodies are buried. Because they're the ones who helped you put them there."And sometimes, if you're really lucky, they help you dig them back up.

I stayed involved with music my whole life. I was always playing with other people.

All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true.

I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.

An urban novelist never minds a little decay.

Burroughs's voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American.

People who enjoy what they do, invariably do it well.

My future is bright and beautiful.

I have three beautiful children and a World Series ring. That's all I need.

If I liked an idea, even slightly, I would throw some money at it. I've had a lot of random things not work out that people don't know about.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...