There's a structure to a detective story that I can easily understand. I understand playing that particular game. It's like solving a puzzle. Or creating a puzzle.

It's always fun to welcome new people into your life. When dating anyone or becoming friends with anyone who has a different profession, a different life, it opens doors. All my friends here do such different creative things. It's so awesome.

There is a value to moving more slowly through a story.

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

I had lived in New York since 1996, sometimes in the worst neighborhoods, without even locking my door half the time.

There's also something sexual about watching the nubile girl in terror. But you do take on her fear as your own.

It's hard for me to figure out where I want to be. But it's definitely in New York. I feel like New York throws different challenges at you and you can be more creative.