I've Always Been Entranced With Theater.

One Of The Things That Struck Me As Unique About Hollywood Is That I Never Had Bad Meetings. There Were All Enthusiastic, But Meaninglessly Enthusiastic.

I Think As I Have Gotten Older, My Feelings About My Role In The Culture As A Writer, And Me Specifically, Has Changed, And Has Become More Degraded And Marginalized. This May Be A More Personal And Psychological Than A Sociological Insight, But I Feel More Vulnerable.

I Was An Infinitely Hot And Dense Dot.

The Interesting Thing About Something In The Back Of Your Mind Is That It Can Travel Pretty Far Back In Your Mind.

I Have An Enduring, Very Robust Infatuation With Dictators. I Have An Infatuation With Stalin, Mao, And Mussolini. In The Paris Review Interview I Did (in 2013), I Said My Next Book, This One, Was Going To Be About Mussolini. I Wound Up Only Having A Mussolini Cameo In The Book.