I can't heal your pain but I can see it. And you don't have to be lost. Not forever.

New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun.

In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America!

The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.

You hold onto what you have; you do not give it up easily, even when you know it is poisoning you.

You can only maintain an immensely gothic attitude for so long before either killing yourself or beginning to feel like a poser.

Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.

Young writers shouldn't be afraid of striving to emulate their favorites. It's a good way to learn, as long as you move on from it and don't publish too many of the results.

Never relinquish your terrors. That's when they catch you.

Ive tried to avoid labels, but they always find you.

My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.

A woman must prefer her liberty over a man. To be happy, she must. A man to be happy, however, must yearn for his woman more than his liberty. This is the rightful order.

I was like I was in science class: I was curious.

I read your diary. I KNOW.

Shakespeare was so ahead of his time that people still don't talk that way.

Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them

Racing Stripes was so much fun to do. It's one of the funniest movies I've seen in a couple years.

I was excited to discover, in this tale by Eliade, the key themes that I most hope to understand better - time, consciousness and the dream-like basis of reality.

I'm doing stuff on Kaballah and Scientology and a little bit more racial stuff, for good measure.

The problem with these interviews is that there's no sarcastic font.