“I like to talk about America. It's so mysterious.”
“I won't talk to you about my family and you won't talk to me about yours. Family talk is either boring or self-pitying. Or it's Gothic, like a Faulkner novel. Who needs to talk about it? It's enough to live it.”
“Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since.”
“You can't talk about fucking in America, people say you're dirty. But if you talk about killing somebody, that's cool.”
“Talking to the British about sex is like talking to Americans about reading. Nobody does it so why talk about it?”
“It's okay to talk about it. Death is so normal, I don't know why everyone gets so hung up about it. We all have to deal with it. Most people that you talk to have lost someone, but nobody talks about it.”