Are the dead as lonesome as the living?

And yes, to answer you seriously, I am beginning to be... well, not bored, but tempted; afraid, but tempted. When you've been in pain for a long time, when you wake up every morning with a rising sense of hysteria, then boredom is what you want, marathon sleeps, a silence in yourself.

Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad.

I've never worked for a newspaper. I've had some very bad reviews in newspapers.

Technically I feel total fluidity in writing. I feel there's nothing technically that I can't do the way a certain sort of pianist feels that. But that doesn't mean it comes easily. It doesn't.

With one exception everybody who has ever been involved with me is still a great friend of mine.

I guess if you're that thin and that small you don't need to take up too much space or breathe that much air. You just keep on going.