I'm from South Jersey: The idea of eating a roll with olive oil and anchovies or some kind of sardine and drinking mint tea definitely comes from reading Paul Bowles.

In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.

I longed to read everything I possibly could, and the things I read in turn produced new yearnings.

There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.

Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.

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

The film [Dream of Life] is not really an amateur work, despite the fact that none of us have ever done anything like this before; aesthetically, none of us are amateurs.