We don't really know how technology will affect narrative. That's the question. See, people used to say that the novel is going to die, but they would never say that movies will die with it, when in fact all forms depend on the narrative. I think if one of them fails, the others are going to fail as well. Maybe this will happen to both forms, and maybe movies will take a totally different direction with fiction.

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.

He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world.

Everything's a scandal. Dying's a scandal. But we all do it.

Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements that made the city operational.

I'm not reclusive at all. Just private.

To be a tourist is to escape accountability.