The only thing that does change, to some degree, is [that] you have some life experiences, you suffer a certain amount and you incorporate that into your work. Not in the content of your work, but in the sensibility of your work. It's nothing that you try and do; it just happens. And if you're lucky, people buy tickets to see it, and if you're not lucky, [then] they don't like it. But that's all.

Well, if I don't get at least 16 hours, I'm a basket case.

Better not think too much. Relying more on the body: it is more trustworthy.

Pale, nervous girls with black-rimmed glasses and blunt-cut hair lolled around on sofas, riffling Penguin Classics provocatively. [...] But it wasn’t just intellectual experiences—they were peddling emotional ones, too. For fifty bucks, I learned, you could “relate without getting close.” For a hundred, a girl would lend you her Bartok records, have dinner, and then let you watch while she had an anxiety attack.

Nothing like a little post-traumatic stress disorder to make your day complete.

Fantasy is only a state of mind that you can employ when existing in a real context.

I love the rain - it washes memories off the sidewalk of life.