I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written Just Kids had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer.

As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.

We went our separate ways, but within walking distance of one another.

When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective novel.

Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.

I liked being on stage, I just didn't like the theatrical aspect of being in front of people.

Since childhood, it was my dream to go where all the poets and artists had been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Brancusi, Camus, Picasso, Bresson, Goddard, Jeanne Moreau, Juliette Greco, everybody - Paris for me was a Mecca.