I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space.

I don't write about anything I don't love even if that love sometimes gets all screwed up and tormented.

Yes! I'm the slowest comic-book writer on Earth.

Being blocked, being uncertain, sitting there not knowing, waiting, abiding with it: this is the work. If you don't have the tolerance for that you're in great trouble. If you want to call it a writer's block... that doesn't seem a very useful name for that kind of abiding that I think is the essence of the work.

You could grow up in the city where history was made and still miss it all.

I guess they needed a maze in Japan, where everything's neat and tidy. In America everybody's already wandering around lost.

It's impossible to overstate how my relationship to music forms a preserve for the esoteric or even spiritual aspect of my relationship to cultural stuff, to human expressivity... it's a safe enclosure.