For me, music is sort of the art that I can't incorporate into my person the way I want to.

When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed.

what exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety?

I believe that written stories will continue to survive because they answer an essential human need. I think movies might disappear before the novel disappears, because the novel is really one of the only places in the world where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy.

The world's large enough and interesting enough to take a different approach each time you sit down to write about it.

My heart and the elevator, a plummet inside a plummet.

Comics? Honestly, that's more a matter of nostalgia for me. I think most of that energy has gone to my love of literature, and my love of film...