I don't behave the way people necessarily want me to, but I tried behaving that other way for a short period of time and it didn't take.

I like European and South American literature, but mostly I read nonfiction.

I don't tell clients what to do. I don't even really tell them what the future is.

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.

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.

Men exist on the planet. We have to deal with them at some point.