I believe in people treating each other with respect.

It's really interesting with art-movies too, but art especially - to see how your attitude toward artists and works and your level of appreciation of them is always shifting and changing over the years.

When you're young, you don't especially think of yourself as being young. You're just alive and everything's interesting and you don't think of things in terms of age because you're not conscious of it.

Another thing that's good about writing to describe a situation or a state of consciousness is that you can finally get it right. That was my intention, and that's always interesting.

A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the entire life.

I decided I wanted out because it was killing me, and I couldnt see where to go with it that wouldnt be fatal.

I shake my head and the tiny acrobats fall like spangles, like the cool rain on another planet, down to the inside of my feet.