[I]t may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering.

"See," Sasha muttered, eyeing the sun. 'It's mine."

Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want to do.

If I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conquer the world. The trouble is, when you most need such a view, no one gives it to you.

[I]t may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering.

Everybody sounds stoned, because they're e-mailing people the whole time they're talking to you.

I think, for one thing, all of us remember those teenage years and those songs that we fell in love with and the music scene that we were part of. So, in a certain way, music cuts through time like almost nothing else. You know, it makes us feel like we're back in an earlier moment.