Music is a permanent art, it will always go through phases where you like it and are in tune with it, but saying that music "got bad" is infantile. The same is true with your life.

I worked the AV counter at the Roland Heights public library in the '80s. My best story from the library was the time a couple asked for a recommendation, and I recommended Raising Arizona and they absolutely hated it. They came back hungry for blood. I was on my lunch break and my boss came out and said, "Hey kid, you need to come talk to these people. They totally hate Arizona." And he said, "Arizona's a dog; nobody gets that movie."

I make up stories that take place in real space with real people. If I could convert this into a technique for experimental novels, I might really be onto something.

At 23, you can completely, literally reinvent yourself if you want to.

This is why people cry at the movies: because everybody’s doomed. No one in a movie can help themselves in any way. Their fate has already staked its claim on them from the moment they appear onscreen.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

I still get really excited looking at stuff that I've seen every day for 20 years.