You don't have to go to New York and you don't have to go to LA or London. Go somewhere cheap. Go somewhere with free art museums and then just go to art museums.

I don't think that I can be settled and I don't think that I would ever want to be.

I have a really good life and I really like it.

Talk to people who know more than you. I feel like we're in this stupid sea of opinion, like "My opinion is valid because it's mine and I have it."

Most of what I do is for creative people - writers and painters and photographers - trying to work through creative problems.

Just send the emails and talk to people. Spend all your money on nail polish and opera tickets.

I don't think that if I had spent the time that I was in, say, Belgrade, writing about my time in Trieste, which is where I had just been, that would have been productive. I told myself: take extensive notes while you're there, do the research part of it, and then pray, pray, the muses will be available when the actual 'ready' happens.