"I'm not interested in the patterns so scrutinized by statistics that everyone celebrates with a familiar, satisfied smile on their faces. My weakness is for teratology and for freaks. I believe, unswervingly, agonizingly, that it is in freaks that Being breaks through to the surface and reveals its true nature."

"For what it's worth, my stint as young America's representative from the ghetto was a relatively short-lived one. At a certain point the gullibility of others becomes tedious, and that was my saving grace."