“Everything worth knowing about the 1980s I learned from obsessively reading Bloom County collections when I was nine and Derek Jarman's diaries when I was twenty.”

“Nothing is new anymore. We're living in a post-everything society and "art" itself has become satire.”

“Ive long believed that the gods give us the music were supposed to hear at the times were supposed to hear it, because all music, even lyrical and regardless of language performed in, is in and of ...”

“I never saw "being different" in and of itself as the point to "being Goth" -- dressing different from most others, maybe, but the point to me was to get together with people who liked the same mus...”

“Those who can, do; those who can't, teach; those who can't teach, police grammar on the Internet.”

“How paltry are the traces left behind by a life, even one concentrated around those supposed things of permanence called words. We spend our time upon the earth and then disappear, and only one one...”

“In many ways my life has been rather like a record of the lost and found. Perhaps all lives are like that.”

“The crash did not cause the Depression: that was part of a far broader malaise. What it did was expose the weaknesses that underpinned the confidence and optimism of the 1920s - poor distribution o...”

“The truth is that the world is full of dragons, and none of us are as powerful or cool as wed like to be. And that sucks. But when youre confronted with that fact, you can either crawl into a hole ...”

“After all, it's all kinds of things that make up a life, right? The big, like falling in love and spending time with your family, and the little....like blow drying your hair, applying concealer, a...”

“I don't imagine book elitists as my audience when writing. I dream about teachers, morticians and garbage men instead.”