If I'm in LA, I'm close to home, and that just brings up all these other things, good and bad. There is a reason why I am not there .

I've also never written anything really in LA.

My good friend, the poet Kofi Natambu, once said, "Contradiction is how we operate."

If all the students who slept through lectures were laid end to end, they'd all be a lot more comfortable. If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.

If New York is the City That Never Sleeps, then Los Angeles is the City That's Always Passed Out on the Couch.

Even when it comes to writing fiction, how do you encompass all this stuff that's right on the tip of your tongue? You have to fold that into what you're working on.

There are certain things that happen in New York that just don't happen anywhere else.