It's true that some of us become better writers by living long enough. But this is also how we become worse writers. The trick is to die in between.

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

Fame requires every kind of excess. I mean true fame, a devouring neon, not the sombre renown of waning statesmen or chinless kings.

To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of stupidity.

Off-camera lives are unverifiable.

Some nights I need to be held. Tonight I'm a listener. So nice to lie in rumpled sheets and listen. Cover me with words.

I'm not reclusive at all. Just private.