If you're a writer you know that the stories don't come to you, you have to go looking for them. The old men in the lobby: that's where the stories were.

New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.

I don't go to church on Sunday, don't get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way

Well, it's either kiss me or kill me, that's how I see it.

I saw a crow building a nest, I was watching him very carefully, I was kind of stalking him and he was aware of it. And you know what they do when they become aware of someone stalking them when they build a nest, which is a very vulnerable place to be? They build a decoy nest. It's just for you.

They say that I have no hits and that I'm difficult to work with. And they say that like it's a bad thing.

You just write and you don't try to make sense of it. You just put it down the way you got it.