Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? It's weird.

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

Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.

These are the days after. Everything now is measured by after.

There is a world inside the world.

Somehow pictures always lead to people as masses. Books belong to individuals.

You live in a tower that soars to heaven and goes unpunished by God.