Zadie Smith

No, I mean, you know, it's definitely aging, but I'm always incredibly grateful for the girl who wrote that book because she enabled my entire life.

So I like to hear about her.

I don't think it's changed that much.

I think I'm always interested in time.

I'm always interested in our, for lack of a better term, like our existential experience, like our experience on this earth.

I'm always fascinated by culture of all kinds.

And that hasn't really aged.

Sometimes I think it's a bit embarrassing how much I keep up with...

I don't know, music or new books or I have a kind of voracious appetite for that kind of stuff.

That's the privilege of my life, I guess.

I had the opportunity to continue to be interested.

I would have assumed that everybody's obsessed with time.

I am.

I'll tell you that.

I don't think I've ever met anybody who isn't.

So I always find it strange when people think of it as particular to me because I thought that's just the way people went through life.

But that's another thing about writing.

You find out the things that are actually peculiar to you.

That's always the question you're...

trying to get on the page, like, is this normal?