Any place is good for eavesdropping, if you know how to eavesdrop.

I do like books on anatomy. I have to say I'm an amateur physician, I guess.

Well, they'll bark you down like carneys, sell you Christmas cards in June.

You almost have to create situations in order to write about them, so I live in a constant state of self-imposed poverty. I don't want to live any other way.

I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.

As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time.

I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.