That's really a very different experience: You don't have to look to be understood. You're already understood.

Art is about paying attention.

I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual.

As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.

The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk about it. I can't bear musicals.

I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it.

So many things have happened to me in my life that I could be phobic about.