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The death drive is parasitic. It runs off of other drives, leeching off of them.

Sometimes it seemed like the whole point of life was not to die the same death as your father.

Every time I try to write on vacation, I fail miserably.

I've never had a mentor. I've always wanted one. I'm actually really disappointed that nobody took my under their wing.

It's families that stop people. All they're good for is guilt.

All your convictions come back to mock you when you reach a certain age.

You don't realize how old you've become until someone young comes around to remind you.

One day I want to write a full-on horror book.

Time was the single asset that every country, every market, depended on.

Both my parents were big readers.

A family wasn't forged out of steel. You dig a hole in a person and then you fill it with yourself.

But wasn't there always a someone once for everyone?

There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature.

I was a very scared child.

I had lived in New York since 1996, sometimes in the worst neighborhoods, without even locking my door half the time.

You know how hard it is to actually touch the world? To make a mark on it? You die and they bury you in it.

There's something about fear and aesthetic that go hand in hand.

Looking back, [R.E.M.]videos, by in large, have always been art films. I'm thinking of "Losing My Religion." That's a landmark piece.

I have always wanted to be either a cinematographer or a veterinarian.

Now we're in an age of singles. It's actually always been more about singles for most of music history.

I feel that I'm solid at description.

Maybe, in the end, a home is a place where you have no other choice but to stay.

We lost so many talented artists and writers from the generations before ours that we're really lacking older figureheads.

I had been going out to Orient for several years.

When do the defense measures of a paranoid country become their own agents of self-destruction?

Was there anything as innocent as willful self-destruction?

I was obsessed with Agatha Christie in sixth grade.

I smoke cigarettes when I write, which is disgusting, but it really helps me.

There is a value to moving more slowly through a story.

Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me.

Women had cup sizes to track their development. Men had a ruler and hope.

Today, MTV doesn't play videos anymore, but YouTube certainly has become the next MTV.

I've always looked like this - in between. Is there ever an age when a person looks exactly like themselves?

Critics like mailmen delivering unwanted news.

I've never even done a residency.

My strength is character. I'm pretty good at building walking-talking humans with brains like beehives.

There's also something sexual about watching the nubile girl in terror. But you do take on her fear as your own.

Mills was experienced enough to understand what gay men were often forced to be in this world: romantic opportunists.

Going out into the country after living in the city is a loss of control.

Your little eco-friendly fairy tale ain't going to happen. This was farming land long before it was cute-house land.

It's all a fucking trap, owning things, places, people. The way I see it, we don't own things. We get owned.

I have to say I do read partly for escapism. Why can't I escape and learn something?

Paul needed to come out, not as gay or straight, but as human.

In a lot of ways, work was my graduate school.

To this day I still watch tons of horror.

I was never afraid on stage. That's where I was the least afraid. I could just do what I do and I had the amplification and the lights.

She had no way of evaluating the beauty of someone so young. All young people looked beautiful to her now.

Everyone loves a dead artist. It's the living ones that people can't tolerate.

Art didn't have to provide answers. It only had to ask questions.