Most of the answers to the world could be answered with our bodies.

There was a lot of tension between my dad and his mother and brothers. Sometimes when I was over there, I remember thinking, "I don't want to get shot."

I don't think anybody does anything anymore without commenting on why they're doing it or making fun of it as they're doing it.

This [Thelonious Monk: The Life And Times Of An American Original] is another one of those books with the perfect blend of anecdote and analysis. The analysis is built into the anecdote. It has that right feel about it. It's not too scholarly, either.

It's like that where these little anecdotes come through, and I guess that's what I like about books like that [He Stopped Loving Her Today]. Fiction now is so experiential.

Everybody is so goddamn sure of themselves, it just makes you realize this is the curse of the modern world.

I just realized that I never look at a painting and ask, 'Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?' It’s just a painting.