I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.

Bob Dylan is one of the very few people in the history of popular music who you can unquestionably apply that word [genius] to.

I love theater. I go all the time. It's one of the reasons I moved to New York. But I understand that I have limited range as an actor. I can only play people who talk like me.

Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.

Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.

The stupidest thing that a writer can do is write a memoir I think, unless it's right before you die -- maybe.

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.