We're living in a future that's weirder than anybody except possibly.

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

Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky.

I don't generate a storyline and then fill it out in the course of writing. The story actually generates in the course of the writing. It's one of the reasons I've never been comfortable doing screenplays, because in order to get the contract for the screenplay, you have to sit down and tell them what's going to happen.

If you’re fifteen or so, today, I suspect that you inhabit a sort of endless digital Now, a state of atemporality enabled by our increasingly efficient communal prosthetic memory. I also suspect that you don’t know it, because, as anthropologists tell us, one cannot know one’s own culture.

I have friends who go [Tokyo] frequently on business, and it sounds interesting. I've heard that they have for the first time serious drug problems.

Art Deco for me except in its most crazed and attenuated forms, it's jut a matter of taste.