I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

Love is strong as death jealousy is cruel as the grave.

We have more people in jail than any other country in Earth, disproportionately Latino and African-American.

I understand how hard rock fans feel inside out, because I was one of those people.

If someone said, I want to translate your novel into Igbo, I would say, Go ahead. But when I write in the Igbo language, I write my own dialect. I write some poetry in that dialect.

Invent new drugs, that's what you should be doing... fight to get new weirder ones... and weirder establishments to do them in.

The noir universe hates do-gooders so it tries to pound them and punish them.

Well, there was a time when we used to sacrifice goats, but then we all became vegans, so we've been sacrificing tofu before the shows!

It's been important to cultures throughout history with the court jester and the witch doctor and the shaman - all preach the same thing.

She saw him drenched with gasoline. She could actually feel the box of matches in her hand.

Take your camera off automatic. You are the photographer.