I Think Tone Gives Birth To The

I Don't Need Art To Tell Me People Are Assholes. I Can Just Go Into The Streets.

In America, Where Writers Are Preoccupied With The Craft Of Writing, I Always Try To Introduce This Concept Of The Badly Written Good Story. Turning The Hierarchy Around And Putting Passion On Top And Not Craft, Because When You Just Focus On Craft, You Can Write Something That Is Very Sterile.

You'll Never Know What's Happening Inside The Heads Of Other People.

I Think That Any Authentic Feeling One Has Of Life Should Be A Feeling Of Defeat. It's A Losing Game. You're Going To Die. Civilization Is Going To End. Our Society Is In Decline, And We Should Feel Ok About It Because Roman Society Was In Decline And Before It The Assyrian One Was, And They Disappeared Off This Earth And We Will Disappear Too.

When I Was A Kid, I Wanted To Make My Parents Happy. I'd Always Say To Them, "what Do You Want Me To Do? Do Sports? Be Rich? Be Funny?" My Mother Would Say, "whatever We Want From You, You Already Gave Us - We Wanted You To Be Alive, And You Made It."