What once were two, are one

I'm a big fan of the Russians: Isaac Babel is just an exquisite line-to-line stylist.

I think people have come to expect that in artistic representation; that every work of art should be a work of extravagant hope.

That for me was the big turning point in my artistic life, when my wife and I had our kids. The world got infused with morality again. Every person in the world should theoretically be loved as much as I love my daughters.

Monologues, in some ways, are the most scientific descriptions of consciousness and even of gatherings.

Later, I went one step further, by putting in some invented "historical" bits [into the Lincoln in the Bardo]. And reading those alongside the actual historical bits was like looking into a sort of a painful mirror, because "my" parts were so show-offy at first. They stood out because they were so flamboyant.

If you want to be good, all you've got to do is be good.