I tend to think of myself as a highly emotional writer. It's all coming out of the deepest feelings, out of dreams, out of the unconscious.

I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world.

I definitely care about how the concept of New York punk was constructed, and why it mattered. But I wasn't gonna do that. Partly because I'm not a great journalist...

Good films demand to be looked at several times in order to be observed completely.

To the resentment that hides inside love, to the loneliness that hides among companions.

I'm a firm believer that there are no rules in art. Every trajectory is different.

One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books.