My love is a thousand French poets puking black blood on your Cure CD collection.

Most of the writers I like just intimidate and humble me but in that there's a good deal of inspiration to be had as well.

I think of the thrill of an intelligent woman talking just to me.

I try to get myself up and moving as early as possible. Optimum is to be on the treadmill while it is still dark outside.

I get tired of talking when I want to be silent.

I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.

Being in New York is an almost overwhelming experience. While Washington, D.C., is my favorite American city, I regard New York City as the most amazing city in the world. No other comes close. It is an incredible, inexhaustible engine.