I Think That Some Laughter Comes From

The Booker 2011 Is Of No More Interest To Me Than The World Heavyweight Championship, Which I'm Not Going To Win Either. It's Irrelevant.

Detachment Is What Interests Me, Seeing How People Couldn't Have Been Any Other Way, How They Were The Product Of Forces That They Had No Control Over.

Looking After Children Can Be A Subtle Way Of Giving Up... They Become The Whole Ones, The Well Ones, The Postponement Of Happiness, The Ones Who Won't Drink Too Much, Give Up, Get Divorced, Become Mentally Ill. The Part Of Oneself That's Fighting Against Decay And Depression Is Transferred To Guarding Them From Decay And Depression. In The Meantime One Decays And Gets Depressed.

I'm Not Trying To Uncover The Facts Of My Life But To Discover The Dramatic Truth Of The Situations I Was In.

Irony Is The Hardest Addiction Of All. Forget Heroin. Just Try Giving Up Irony, The Deep-down Need To Mean Two Things At Once, To Be In Two Places At Once, Not To Be There For The Catastrophe Of A Fixed Meaning.