Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else. This is where California comes in. Mud slides, brush fires, coastal erosion, mass killings, et cetera. We can relax and enjoy these disasters because in our hearts we feel that California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

Off-camera lives are unverifiable.

Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it or not.

I was always younger than anyone around me. One day it began to change.

holes are interesting. there are books about holes.

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.