So this is what insanity is. Not goofy behavior, but watching a sudden change in the world you used to know.

Intimacy is extremely important to me and I want it to be extremely important to the readers.

For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end. A little bit of hunger, but also satisfaction.

Isolation, you know, carries the seeds of its own destruction because as times change, other things seep in.

New York is the last true city.

Listen, baby, people do funny things. Specially us. The cards are stacked against us and just trying to stay in the game, stay alive and in the game, makes us do funny things. Things we can't help. Things that make us hurt one another. We don't even know why.

Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it'll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.