I'm someone who's really susceptible to tears.

we still have the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building and the Woolworth Building, but it just seems like part of the nature of New York, that it's always shifting.

Things always change, and New York teaches you that.

Another thing that's good about writing to describe a situation or a state of consciousness is that you can finally get it right. That was my intention, and that's always interesting.

The purpose of rock n' roll is to convince girls to pay money to get close to you.

In fact I thought life was pretty much a losing proposition, and I didn't mind saying so.

I'm usually alone or asleep, at home.

I do everything halfway, a thing of which adults disapprove, but things done halfway are deceptive, and in a class of their own – for instance, the sun is really twice its size.

A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

I shake my head and the tiny acrobats fall like spangles, like the cool rain on another planet, down to the inside of my feet.

I felt just overwhelmed by input: the Vietnam War and the collapse of the '60s and the proliferation of media' it just felt like everything was too much to handle and you just tuned out.

Every once in a while, people need to be in the presence of things that are really far away.

We skipped right over Walmart on the ladder down.

Every day is an opportunity to fall or hurt yourself.

Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.

It gets on top of me and I get frustrated.

Your life today is a result of your thinking yesterday. Your life tomorrow will be determined by what you think today.

I just want to make a name for myself and get to the next level.

The fact that I get to do what I love and 14 years in, I'm still doing it - I don't know how anything could get better.

I know when an actor is giving it his/her all and when they're just phoning it in.

Sorry, my watch doesn't speak spanish.