Most of life is offline, and I think it always will be; eating and aching and sleeping and loving happen in the body. But it's not impossible to imagine losing my appetite for those things; they aren't always easy, and they take so much time. In twenty years I'd be interviewing air and water and heat just to remember they mattered.

We come from long lines of people destined never to meet.

Did you ever really love her? Not really no. But me? Yes. Even though I have no pizzazz?

I went to the bedroom and lay on the floor, so as not to mess up the covers.

Making a movie: It's so hard. It's the hardest of all the things I do.

The job of the artist is to point at things.

In my paranoid world every storekeeper thinks I’m stealing, every man thinks I’m a prostitute or a lesbian, every woman thinks I’m a lesbian or arrogant, and every child and animal sees the real me and it is evil.