“I had an inspiration once. I woke up one morning and I knew that it was my task to swallow fifty asprin. It was my task:my job for the day.-17 Girl Interrupted”

Steven Wright Special (1985)

"The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse".
My Name Is Aram (1940)
Context: One day, back there in the good old days when I was nine and the world was full of every kind of magnificence, and life was still a delightful and mysterious dream, my cousin Mourad, who was considered crazy by everybody who knew him except me, came to my house at four in the morning and woke me up by tapping on the window of my room.
"Aram," he said.
I jumped out of bed and looked out the window.
I couldn't believe what I saw.
It wasn't morning yet, but it was summer and with daybreak not many minutes around the corner of the world it was light enough for me to know I wasn't dreaming.
My cousin Mourad was sitting on a beautiful white horse.

In recent months, I have adopted Tig’s philosophy.
Source: The Repossession Mambo (2009), Chapter 8 (p. 136)

Someday You Will Be Loved
Plans (2005)

Lyrics, Happy Hour (1992)

Family Business
Lyrics, The College Dropout (2004)

Euro Trash Cinema magazine interview (March 1996)

Source: Prozac Nation

Source: The Lords of Discipline (1980), p. 46. Said by character General Bentley Durrell.