Dave Chappelle asked me to come do his show. I read the script, and I said, 'Has he lost his mind?'
But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics.
Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.