Poe had this curious kind of alchemical courage, where he took all the terrible things and terrors that happened in his life, all this shame and fear and pain, and turned them into great works of art. He was a complex, brilliant person who was just wired too tight.
New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.
A lot of people are not meant to be together.
The people who say they're for democracy want nothing to do with democracy.
All my romantic stories are a scrambled version of that first one.
I remember the '80s being about the Cold War and Reagan and the homeless problem and AIDS. To me, it was kind of a dark, depressing time.