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

I've always been passionately in love with movies, to such a degree that even as a young person of about nineteen or twenty I thought maybe I would try to become a film director. The reason I didn't do it was because I felt I didn't have the right personality. At that time in my life, I was mortally shy.

There's never any percentage in being ahead of your time.

Artists freeze themselves into these weird postures that are meant to be impressive and involving, then they fling them out into the world like Polaroids, and then they move on. And I'm stuck in this intense relationship to the Polaroid.

But the day I can't shrug off a twinge of self-pity, is the day I'm washed up for keeps.

I want what we all want," said Carl. "To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced.

I hate feeling too complacent when I write. I like to be solving new problems.