...what threatens us today in the world of computers and other invasions of privacy is not a national ID card but a number of other things.

I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you're wrong, you're soppy, sentimental.

I don't really like to write at a desk. I like to write when driving in a car. ... Once you're working on it, you're working on it all the time, and sometimes stuff'll come in the middle of the night, in a dream or something. Your mind is working on it all the time.

The death penalty is reserved for people who do not

My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the only thing I find interesting.

I met my old lover on the street last night, she seemed glad to see me.

The leaves that are green turn to brown. And they wither with the wind. And they crumble in your hand.