You realize there are certain things that you'll never do that you always thought would be part of your future. It's a big relief to discover what you are best suited for, and it's a real advantage to be able then to focus.

we still have the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building and the Woolworth Building, but it just seems like part of the nature of New York, that it's always shifting.

I never thought I would write an autobiography, probably because my first novel, Go Now, is really all drawn from my life, even though it's more about the psychology going on.

An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end.

Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.

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.

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.