It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can't shut them up.

There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books.

You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.

I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing.

I have a lot of money.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.

Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.

Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.

I just don't want to die without a few scars.

If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.

The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.

Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?

Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

That saying, about how you always kill the thing you love, well, it works both ways.

Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.