Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape.

It's your flaws, not your strengths, that go down in the depths of your books. You're exposed, like dreaming you're naked in a public building.

L.A. is such a real, active place. My mother was very into the core of the city. She worked in politics, and you have to know your territory. It's an active matrix; we're all parts of it, but people don't often stop to wonder what's going on.

I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college.