I think it's interesting, from a creative point of view, to have witnessed the loss of consciousness on a national level and on a cultural level - Bush had 91 percent support in the polls after 9/11. We wanted to kick some ass!

Your memories become fantasies if they are not shared, and your life in all its triviality becomes a legend.

You don't want your neurosurgeon to have doubts about the meaning of it all while he or she is operating on your brain.

Lord, why did you leave me in these woods?

To write has to be related to a drive inside.

You have to suspend thinking in narratives. The moment you are conscious of yourself the gap opens up. And in this gap, stories are generated.

I actually didn't listen to the Beatles song 'Nowhere Man' when I was writing my book of the same name. What I listened to a lot was 'Abbey Road.' Its disjointedness and its readiness to confuse only to delight were inspiring to me.