Everyone who does not live in Berlin lives in Brooklyn now.
I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.
why something and not nothing? why music and not noise?
holes are interesting. there are books about holes.
I never wanted to change the world. Norman Mailer wanted to, he set himself the task of changing the consciousness of our age. And I think he came pretty close, in the 1960s, to actually managing to do it. But me? No, no, I never wanted anything like that. I'm not Maileresque.
He'd once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way. The air was full of rage and complaint. People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.