If I meet someone and discover that they're an absolute, very earnest nationalist, it's unlikely that I'm going to get much closer to them. I don't understand them. It doesn't matter where they're from, I just don't get it. I'm a multi-national kind of guy.

Hollis thought he looked like William Burroughs, minus the bohemian substrate (or perhaps the methadone). Like someone who'd be invited quail shooting with the vice-president, though too careful to get himself shot.

There's violence in my culture [from America's South].

I realized that everyone in Western society, in some weird way, believes that they've had the experience of producing feature films.

The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.

I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be, somehow, a sign.

Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belonged to phones.