The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream.

The thing is, when everyone is trying to persuade you that a thing you know to be true isn't actually true, you start to believe them: not because it is true but because it's easier. It's just the easy way out.

I've been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs.

The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream.

Rationally speaking, blaming one's behavior on alcohol or drugs is like blaming the ladder by which you descended into a pit, or the staircase that took you down to a cellar, for what you found there.

Because two people in love don't make a hive mind. Neither should they want to be a hive mind, to think the same, to know the same. It's about being separate and still loving each other, being distinct from each other. One is the violin string one is the bow.

Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference.