I do feel it. And I've felt it my whole life, that the supernatural has a role in the world.

I spend most of my time in my head. You can always work out solutions and satisfactions there. Maybe you can't actually bring them about, but there's usually a pleasant pillow of time between imagining you can, and realizing you cannot.

You have to know where the funny is, and if you know where the funny is, you know everything.

When I'm editing, I try to bring out some dramatic structure. I think it is about theater in some way; it is a little play.

I kind of try to resist working a lot. I'm not a very disciplined worker.

Somehow I had turned myself into the worst thing in the world: I was just another man who wanted to teach me something!

Literature and art are one of a number of relationships I have with the world. Like you have relationships with your friends and a relationship with your lover and your relationship with your family and your relationship with your work - sometimes it's really great; sometimes it's non-existent, sometimes it's fruitful.