California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.

In cities no one notices specific dying. Dying is a quality of the air. It's everywhere and nowhere.

People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night.

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

The excitement of theatre is palpable but the frustrations, and the complete absence of a definitive evening - the play as text means practically nothing in a way - , there's no particular performance that is definitive in the way a novel is a solid object you hold in your hands and here it is. You can't say that about a play. If the novel gives us a sense of throbbing consciousness, theater is pure soul, beautiful and elusive.

Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.