It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.

My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.

Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.

My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldnt understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.

Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.

I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker.

I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus.