“You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”

“Great teachers had great personalities and that the greatest teachers had outrageous personalities. I did not like decorum or rectitude in a classroom; I preferred a highly oxygenated atmosphere, a climate of intemperance, rhetoric, and feverish melodrama. And I wanted my teachers to make me smart....”

“Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.”

“Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.”