Everyone who does not live in Berlin lives in Brooklyn now.

There are two categories of writers, it could be said: The author who is just a voice, and the one who is also creating a picture. I belong to the latter, because I have an acute visual sense.

...Because what's the meaning of doing dishes if you're not driven by something beyond necessity.

Music is dangerous in so many ways. It's the most dangerous thing in the world.

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

Time seems to pass. The world happens, unrolling into moments, and you stop to glance at a spider pressed to its web. There is a quickness of light and a sense of things outlined precisely and streaks of running luster on the bay. You know more surely who you are on a strong bright day after a storm when the smallest falling leaf is stabbed with self-awareness. The wind makes a sound in the pines and the world comes into being, irreversibly, and the spider rides the wind-swayed web.

That's what in theory differentiates a writer from everyone else. You see and hear more clearly.