Anthony quotes:

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.