New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion.

I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be

I mean maybe I was holding all the aces, but what was the game?

The minute you start putting words on paper you're eliminating possibilities.

I just read everything I could get my hands on. I taught myself to read or my mother taught me. Who knows how I learned to read? It was before I went to school, so I would go to the library and just take things off the shelf. My mother had to sign a piece of paper saying I could take adult books.

Sometimes an actor performs a character, but sometimes an actor just performs. With writing, I don't think it's performing a character, really, if the character you're performing is yourself. I don't see that as playing a role. It's just appearing in public.

I don't know what I think until I write it down.