All the beautiful waitresses existed like eternal responsibilities.

I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.

The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode.

To be famous is to be stuck in an inflexible place. But at least it is to be stuck with money.

I refer to jet lag as 'jet-psychosis - there's an old saying that the spirit cannot move faster than a camel.

Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.

Skiing is better than sex actually, because for me a good round of sex might be seven minutes. Skiing you can do for seven hours.