We're seeing different things up and down the coast, but they are within a dime. There's been no movement, no progress. Some people say we won't get some movement until we get some decent weather and that forces the issue. I don't think the bar will be passable until Friday.

This is, in my memory, probably going to be the most difficult salmon season for us to cope with. It's going to be very difficult to come through this.

Nobody is going out, except for the tribal Indian fishers in Washington.

Even in making objects, as soon as you start to get the feeling that some form of craft is coming into place, you realize that everything is wrong. Because craft is really just a fetish. It is wasted energy. It's about the object, some space which has nothing to do with the human.

My characters aren't chess pieces. I don't move them around some big board. I actually care about these fictitious people.

Managers will tell people what to do, whereas leaders will inspire them to do it, and there are a few things that go into the ability to inspire.