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.

What I'm constantly striving for in my prose is clarity. So that, ideally, the writing will become so transparent that the reader will forget that the medium of communication is language.

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

Apologies aren't something you want to get in the habit of practicing in the mirror

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...

I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again... The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there.

Every book is a kind of experiment in doing something that feels impossible.