There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
From Paul Auster
Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the nice sights in our city, seeing a young woman on a bike.
People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is.
Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.
In my studio, it is unkempt and unattractive. Once I'm in my work, I don't notice where I am.
Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain.
The human body is strange and flawed and unpredictable. The human body has many secrets, and it does not divulge them to anyone, except those who have learned to wait.
Human beings need stories, and we're looking for them in all kinds of places; whether it's television, whether it's comic books or movies, radio plays, whatever form, people are hungry for stories.
Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you. They helped shape reality, and I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.
I'm not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me.
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