Women still get angry at me. I mean, men go after me sometimes, but most of the bad responses come from women.

I understand maybe some people are more impressionable than my hard, cynical self, but maybe they need to figure out how to be less of that.

Go to a place and just send out emails. That's my entire life. I go to countries and I ask, "Who would I know who lives here?" Not even do I know, but who exists and is on the planet.

I believe in free will.

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.

I mean, many times your creative problem is accidentally your personal problem, but it's not quite the same.

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