I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.

It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.

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

Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.

Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something.

Not many people care what you do. They care about what you do as much as you care about what they do. Think about it. Just exactly that much. You are not the center of the universe.

As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true.