Don't seek the truth; just drop your opinions.

I did not give Xanax or anything else to my child.

To make sure you are not asleep when the sun begins to rise.

If you want to look young and thin on your birthday. Hang around a bunch of old fat people.

In the ’70s it was skateboards, in the ’80s it was drugs, in the ’90s it was art, and now it’s my family.

Solicitude for material things distracts the soul and divides it. The devil seizes the divided soul and drags it to hell.

Join the Republican party if you cannot abide Democrats. You will probably loathe Republicans just as much, but there are fewer of them.

When I do think, ‘Man a f—cking motel room with a couple of thousand dollars worth of narcotics would do me right,’ I just look over at my dog and remember that Buster’s never seen me high.

Is Miami America? Is it a state? Is it the South? ... I love Miami for the same reason I love the places I love most around the world... it's the mix here, this big, messy, dysfunctional hell broth of people from all over the world that make it so awesome and make it a place I want to keep coming back to. Also the food's good.

My best experience as a writer was working with Michael Ondaatje. He let me dismantle his novel, reimagine it, and still had dinner with me and gave me good notes. But the best thing about writing has been the writer's life, the sense of being expressed, the ownership of the day, the entirely specious sense of freedom we have, however slave we are to some boss or other. I wouldn't trade it for any other life.

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