I shake my head and the tiny acrobats fall like spangles, like the cool rain on another planet, down to the inside of my feet..

The problem with an autobiography is that all these extra factors make it difficult. You don't want to hurt people's feelings. You don't know how muc….

I remember the revelation it was to me when I realized I'd rather be smart in the way Elvis Presley was than in the way, say, Ludwig Wittgenstein was….

Well, I thought the Sex Pistols were the cream of the crop. They came in and topped everybody, for sure. They took all the existing strands and made ….

You're always thinking, "What does that add up to?" You can't really get a handle on it. I was curious. I felt like it would be an interesting challe….

I'm someone who's really susceptible to tears..

You realize there are certain things that you'll never do that you always thought would be part of your future. It's a big relief to discover what yo….

I felt just overwhelmed by input: the Vietnam War and the collapse of the '60s and the proliferation of media' it just felt like everything was too m….

I love a good play, but they're too hard to find..

I do everything halfway, a thing of which adults disapprove, but things done halfway are deceptive, and in a class of their own – for instance, ….

It's really interesting with art-movies too, but art especially - to see how your attitude toward artists and works and your level of appreciation of….

It used to be that artists thought of nature as their environment. Now media is our environment. It has been for the past 50, 70 years. It's what you….

A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the entire life..