When we started becoming friends, I was really doing a lot of cocaine, and he hated that. Prince was so against drugs.
[My work] is a love song to our mongrel selves.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.
The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame.
Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
I reluctantly concluded that there was no way for me to help bring into being the Muslim culture I'd dreamed of, the progressive, irreverent, skeptical, argumentative, playful and unafraid culture which is what I've always understood as freedom. . . . Actually Existing Islam. . . which makes literalism a weapon and redescription a crime, will never let the likes of me in.
When we were done and not picked up to series yet, they wanted us to read lots of writers. I was like, "No. " Then we finally were picked up. It is hard not to start thinking of story lines. It is like doodling.
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
A heroin-thin boy with enough rings in his eyebrows to resemble a shower curtain rod.
I may not be a lion,but I am lions cub and I have lion's heart