I didn't flee a dictator or swim an ocean to be an American like some do. I just thought long and hard about it.

I think when you become a parent you go from being a star in the movie of your own life to the supporting player in the movie of someone else's.

I didn't say no because between safety and adventure I choose adventure.

I knew that I had been partially right in the storeroom above the bar on Christmas Day. Whoever I had become had to die.

Every day I ran to that book like it was a bottle of whiskey and crawled inside because it was a world that I had at least some control over, and slowly, in time, it began to take shape.

Divorce lawyers stoke anger and fear in their clients, knowing that as long as the conflicts remain unresolved the revenue stream will keep flowing.

I found the prospect daunting, but somehow comforting, too, because the counselors insisted it could be done, and, after all, many of them were recovering alcoholics themselves.

Acid gave me a clinical, unblinking look at madness, and I discovered I wasn't brave enough to be insane.

After all this time I found that the novel is in fact punk rock.

I found out it is just as hard to make a movie that you are not proud of as it is to make one you love.

My mother was tickled and I think kind of proud when my father got hit on my an attractive middle-aged Asian lady who hadn't noticed he was with his family. He was certainly pleased about it.

I don't know what happened to me, " he said, shaking his head. "I honestly don't." ... "You grew up, Alex.

Hate when hate acquaints the burns

Every person writes his own book with the example of his life.

For most of us, design is invisible. Until it fails

Allow yourself the freedom to step away from perfection because it is only then that you can find success.

I wasn't representing anybody but myself. I was representing only myself.

That's true of every form of literature - each writer brings new things to it because each of us is an individual.

Let's face it: the world is twisted. And rotten.

Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things.

Form and content must never apologize for each other.