And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap.

Torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.

Where I'm is one of those stair climbing machines the agent has installed. You climb and climb forever and never get off the ground. You're trapped in your hotel room. It's the mystical sweat love lodge experience of our time, the only sort of Indian vision quest we can schedule into our daily planner.Our Stair Master to Heaven.

Picture the moment when your mom and dad first saw you as something other than a pretty, tiny version of them. You as them, but improved. Better educated. Innocent. Then picture when you stopped being their dream.

If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.

Now is the autumn of our ennui.

I spend most of my life just listening to people.