"I'm not interested in being popular. I'm interested in being free."

"I've always believed that the only way to be truly original is to steal from everyone."

"I am a writer. I do not have to be polite. I do not have to be nice. I do not have to be politically correct. I have to be true to my imagination."

"I have always believed that stories are how we make sense of the world, and how we change the world."

"The purpose of art is to hold a mirror up to nature, and sometimes that mirror is distorted."