In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children.

The greatest style is when you can't see the style though you walk away knowing it was there. It's like a perfume - there but not there.

I couldn't sit down and write a novel or a short story - even now - because of my dyslexia. But I learned narration through movies.

I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called 'slow'. It's an awful feeling to think of yourself as 'slow' - it's horrible.

Style is a way of talking about yourself.

Style lasts forever and taste doesn't.

I was dyslexic as a child and it took me years to get passed that. I read a lot but it was hard and that didn't go away until my early-to-mid-twenties. So really what I was looking at were the photographs and the illustrations in magazines.