I said, “I need to hear something that’s going to save my life.” Re: Selecting songs from a jukebox.

A true storyteller is really good at writing himself into a corner and then finding a way out of that corner

Childhood is a branch of cartography.

No; he could be ruined again and again by hope, but he would never be capable of belief.

But the first lie in the series is the one you make with the greatest trepidation and the heaviest heart.

What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll have to approach it simply as raw material and try to craft a film script out of it.

Misogyny comes naturally to a young man in his late teens; it is a function of the powerful homosocial impulses that flower along Fraternity Row, that drove the mod movements of the middle sixties and late seventies, that lie at the heart of every rock band formed by men of that age.