L.A. is a great place to write because you have a lot of space. I have a big office at home, I can leave the doors open. Flowers bloom all year. But it's unglamorous in all the right ways.

The VW doesn’t make you think of Hitler and genocide. It’s a breast on wheels, a puffy little dream.

Violence, factory politics - these things simply form some bedrock of what interests me, but I'm a child of the twentieth century. And I don't see reality and its violence, wars, oppression, etc., and fiction as counterposed.

Motorcycles aren't about gaining agency, I don't think.

In short, I'm pretty suspicious of the idea that there's a real and true and authentic world, and then a bunch of false ones.

To be alive is to listen quietly while other people talk. That's how you learn something.

Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.