“He that say madness isn't contagioushas never spent his whole childhood locked upin a room without doors or windows where the grown-upslie chained together in their straitjacketsafter having tried to scratch each others eyes out andday and night planned to tear each other apart”

“I am the eye that makes light visible”

“Carefully squeezing through the forest of adults that crowded the aisles, feeling like an intruder in a forbidden temple, he cautiously pushed deeper into the newsstand and found a new paperback by a writer whose novel about vampires he had read and reread until the cover was falling apart. There had been an all-black cover on the vampire book. This new one gleamed like polished chrome. It was called THE SHINING, but it cost $2.50 and he had spent all but $1.25 of his weekly allowance on some STAR WARS stuff at the mall.”

“They wordlessly excused each other for not loving each other as much as they had planned to. There were empty rooms in the house where they had meant to put their love, and they worked together to fill these rooms with midcentury modern furniture. ("Birthmark").”

“I am for an art that imitates the human, that is comic, if necessary, or violent, or whatever is necessary. I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life itself, that twists and extends and accumulates and spits and drips, and is heavy and coarse and blunt and sweet and stupid as life itself.”

“Detta är en sann historia- men ändå inte helt sanningsenlig.I verkligheten var allt mycket värre...”

“I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something more than sit on its ass in a museum.”