All I Want To Do

Tell Me Anything. Tell Me Everything. Revoke Our Time Apart. Love Me Fierce In Danger.

The 250-page Outline For American Tabloid. The Books Are So Dense. They're So Complex, You Cannot Write Like I Write Off The Top Of Your Head. It's The Combination Of That Meticulousness And The Power Of The Prose And, I Think, The Depth Of The Characterizations And The Risks That I've Taken With Language That Give The Books Their Clout. And That's Where I Get Pissed Off At A Lot Of My Younger Readers.

I Like To Have Fun Out There. I Work Hard, And Then I Get To Cut Loose And Go Out And Tour, And I Enjoy It. I Like To Go Out And Meet The People. I Love To Sell Books.

I Was In L.a. In '08. It Was A Cold Saturday Night. I Had Spread My Phone Number Out To A Score Of Women And Was Just Indulging This Sweet, Sad, Elegiac, Bale Loneliness - Don't Tell Me You Haven't Been There.

I Wanted To Portray A Newly Democratized, Enclosed Society. I Wanted To Show How Extraordinarily Fluid People Are In Their Embrace Of Other Human Beings.