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

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!

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.

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

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.

And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?

sometimes it's better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn't know

We have one of the highest interest rates in the world, and we owe more money per capita than any other country. All we need is a nail hole in the bottom of the boat and we're sunk.

Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.

It surprises me what the girls are capable of doing for me.

One is never deceived; one deceives oneself.

We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.

Differential equations won't help you much in the design of aeroplanes - not yet, anyhow.

I'm so lost without you. Feeling lonely, scared & cold. I'm so lost without you. Tell me baby, when are you coming home?

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