I was a very scared child.

There's something about fear and aesthetic that go hand in hand.

The Greeks really believed in history. They believed that the past had consequences and that you might be punished for the sins of your father. America, and particularly New York, runs on the idea that history doesn't matter. There is no history. There is only the never-ending present. You don't even have your family because you moved here to get away from them, so even that idea of personal history has been cut at the knees.

It's just as political, what you do in the bedroom is just as political as what you do in public.

The death drive is parasitic. It runs off of other drives, leeching off of them.

Now we're in an age of singles. It's actually always been more about singles for most of music history.

You find when you're writing a detective story that you're actually not trying to solve anything. You're trying to stop the reader from solving the puzzle.