I don't decide where I live. My wife decides. She's a curator of contemporary art, and she works at an art museum, so we go wherever she has a job. All basements look the same, so I can write from whatever basement I happen to be living in.

It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.

What happens in the band room stays in the band room.

The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death with was Augustus Waters.

I will play out the string. I will not betray your trust. I will find you.

I found his last words without too much searching. Captured by the Bolivian army, Guevara said, 'Shoot, coward. You are only going to kill a man.

The part I enjoy most is not the doing, but the noticing.