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

Maybe I'm just sensitive to that person who's on the outside.

Don't write about trying to change the world, just write about a changed world or a world that's not changing. Let that do the work.

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 just rode cross-country and the thing I noticed is just how afraid everyone is, and how nervous and scared and angry people are. From my point of view, I don't think it's all necessarily justified, but I think that's easy for me to say.

My British publisher has this independent press. It's pretty small; they actually won last year. And she's got this great energy, and she's fiercely independent, and you know this book was a hard sell. No one wanted to buy this book. But she did, and so it's paid off for her, I hope.

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.