It's so hard to say what you really mean. For any number of reasons: to protect yourself, or if you just can't find the words.

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.

I read an interview with a Japanese freestyle jazz musician once, and he said something like, "Everything I'm going to tell you is not going to be true." He's not saying, "I'm trying to lie to you." But he's kind of saying that you can never say what something really is.

I don't write to put it in a drawer, I hope that people see it.

I think, and a lot of that has to do with where I grew up in California; [status] isn't something I think about that much.

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

My dad fought in Korea. It was one of the first stories I remember hearing about.