A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement. It's more like if you did an illuminated novel. I think both of those things should be running at full blast, not less of both so it becomes an easier thing. I think it should be twice as dense. That's just what interests me.

Really interesting novels, they always are so demanding of you on some level that you don't fall asleep.

What sort of attractions do you think lured our coreligionists out of the ghetto and into the mainstream of European culture? Was it the wit of Molière, or the ingenious stage mechanisms of Pixérécourt? Or was it simply the opportunity to cast an eye, without shame, upon the living, unclad human form?

I always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You'd have to be oblivious not to.

I've wasted the last five years of my life dealing in religious articles. People today find spiritual solace in ballroom dancing.

A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement.

Goat curry and a female librarian, that's what I'm in the mood for.