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.

I remember the revelation it was to me when I realized I'd rather be smart in the way Elvis Presley was than in the way, say, Ludwig Wittgenstein was. The thing was, you could imagine you could be smart like Wittgenstein by just thinking hard enough, but Elvis just had it. It was almost spiritual. A kind of grace.

I love a good play, but they're too hard to find.

I've come to think of myself as a writer of books.

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.

I'm usually alone or asleep, at home.

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