Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.

I guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience.

I'm not belittling the art world. Not at all. I take it quite seriously, actually. But the logic of art is a vanguard logic that pressures art to incorporate the quotient of risk.

I don't really have those kinds of intentions when I write a scene. I try to follow the internal logic of the fiction, rather than make an argument or an assertion.

I don't really see art as structured by logic.

The kids I knew growing up who worked on bikes all loved the smell of gas. It is the liquid agent for speed.

Authenticity is too big a subject to just toss in with the question about the photographs!