In order to have a real life of any romance, there has to be a level of fantasy.

There's a quote that I learned in college a million years ago. "Happy, thought I, is the man who can, in one and the same embrace, hold both his love and the object of his love." Holding the feeling that you have and all the images that you've got and all the fantasies and romantic associations while also holding the actual core person that's been saddled with all of this.

I think sometimes to still be angry is appropriate, but you want to be able to live with it.

When you're waiting for a bus, the thing to do is smoke a cigarette.

I do some messing around with things, not necessarily about me but about place and people and the things around.

I've always wanted to figure out how to do a walking story. I'd never figured out how to do one and have it work or be interesting or have anything that it's about.

That was one of the problems with the Narcissus figure. Here is a face looking at a face, and the problem is the image of the thing is never actually the thing. You try and grab it and it's not there. It's water. It disappears.