You can only give things up once they start to let you down.

It seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one point they get to be right.

You can only give things up once they start to let you down.

Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that they had no control over.

Everything was usual. That was depression: being stuck, clinging to an out-of-date version of oneself.

The first book I fell in love with was 'Little Toot,' the story of an adorable tugboat operating out of New York Harbor.

Proust is a hero of mine. I read 'A la recherche' in one go, and I'm a very slow reader. It had an astonishing impact, reading it on my own and being my main company. I think Proust is the most intelligent person to ever have written a novel.