We watched Vamps hunting Vamps, Vamp hunters and Witches torching Vamps, teenage girls kissing Vamps. And we giggled and swooned through it all.

We must pray with expectant heart.

The most visceral science fiction always takes place in the past and focuses on the humdrum

Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Don't worry about appearing sentimental. Worry about being unavailable; worry about being absent or fraudulent.

I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if thats what youd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other.

With the Internet, bands can come and go every five minutes and the music looks disposable.

It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: Is it true in and for itself?

Books didn't make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books.

Books have always been really important to me; they're my saving grace.

Taxi drivers all over the world, by the way, are under Newspaper Guild contract to give easy quotes to foreign correspondents.

. . . I hope that when you're my age, you'll be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom, we lived lives that were a statement, not an apology.