Art is the most benign cultural practice, and yet art has an upper bound of personal revelation that is so far away it is basically a horizon.

I don't eat fast food often, but I love tacos. I could write prophetically about how perfect the taco is.

I love art and I think I was destined to end up in some aspect of the arts.

Mistakes quickly pile up and coalesce into a reputation, and a reputation is hard to shake.

Growing up, my mom would watch 'Notting Hill' a lot. She loves Hugh Grant.

I would sleep 12 hours a day if I could.

Books woke me up. Books are my favorite man-made objects. I fetishize their design, smell, feel. And that they can contain such burning, complex communications is a miracle to me.

With writing and publishing, my only aim is to live in the aesthetic pleasure dome.

It's harder to make money when you're not a machine in a massive apparatus designed only to make money, but artists will figure it out.

...or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see.

Ataturk sent several Turkish staff officers to Afghanistan, helped them build their own army.

Try to be the king, but the ace is back.

I'm too grateful to be hateful. I am too blessed to be stressed.

No woman will get into the celestial kingdom, except her husband receives her, if she is worthy to have a husband; and if not, somebody will receive her as a servant.

People think that if you're sexy you have no brains, and if you have brains you aren't in touch with your sexual side. I'm trying to tell people, 'You can have it both ways.'

My thesis is that the moral law is articulated with relation to the real as such, to the real insofar as it can be the guarantee of the Thing.

Be of good cheer, Jesus Christ maketh thee whole.

'Pulp Fiction' is an amazing film, and I haven't made one nearly as good.

I know many older writers who were very successful and whose books are now out of print, so you have to go to antiquarian booksellers to buy their fifth or eighth novel or whatever it is.