I've come to think of myself as a writer of books.
A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.
I love a good play, but they're too hard to find.
Nothing lasts in New York. Everything's always changing in really obvious ways.
In fact I thought life was pretty much a losing proposition, and I didn't mind saying so.
There's nothing left of my hometown in Kentucky. All those small and mid-sized towns and cities in the U.S. are just about malls around the edges and suburbs. That was definitely a loss, because everything just gets homogenized. You can't tell where you are, it's all the same.