You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Everything in Japan is hidden. Real life has an unlisted phone number.

Randomness scares people. Religion is a way to explain randomness.

if you live in New York and you have a guest room, you have guests. So I think it's best not to have a guest room.

In conversation you can use timing, a look, an inflection. But on the page all you have is commas, dashes, the amount of syllables in a word. When I write, I read everything out loud to get the right rhythm.

I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.

There's no such thing as advice to the lovelorn. If they took advice, they wouldn't be lovelorn.