I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.

Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others

Addictions [...] started out like magical pets, pocket monsters. They did extraordinary tricks, showed you things you hadn't seen, were fun. But came, through some gradual dire alchemy, to make decisions for you. Eventually, they were making your most crucial life-decisions. And they were [...] less intelligent than goldfish.

Television has - particularly at the HBO level in the United States - become a completely new genre. Something like Deadwood or The Wire is a whole new thing - there was no equivalent to that medium before. It's like a new way of telling stories.

Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.

To some extent I'm guilty of wishful thinking. The absence of the interstitial I find unbearable.

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