A novelist is someone who sits around the house all day in his underwear, trying not to smoke.

The only things I regret, and the only things I'll ever regret are things I didn't do. In the end, that's what we mourn. The paths we didn't take. The people we didn't touch.

The trouble with excuses, however, is that they become inevitably difficult to believe after they’ve been used a couple of times.

Everything creepy and Southern isn't Faulknerian, just like everything annoying isn't Kafkaesque.

You're all I care about," I said. "No. And me. The person I am when I'm with you, the way I see myself and know myself. That person who lives only when I'm with you.

It was a once in a lifetime thing. I hate to think it but I bet it's true. It's too bad for us that our once in a lifetime happened when were too young to handle it.

No pain could match the emptiness of separation, no agony rivaled the unreality of not being with her.

I thought of my mother (...). Freud wrote that no man is secure in the love of his mother can ever be a failure. Well, I had been busy proving that theory wrong.

I never felt so large and important as I did when being in love was everything. I saw you walking a foot above the earth and I remembered that was where I used to walk.

I try to know as much as I can about a book before the beginning, but I never know exactly where it's going to end.

All I wanted was what I'd already had. That exultation, that love. It was my one real home; I was a visitor everywhere else.

Got a lot of sinful idears--but they seem kinda sensible.

Cloud computing seems to be following this evolutionary path: A - Internet backbone. B - Information Superhighway. C - The Net. D - The Web. E - The Cloud. F - "Ubiquity" G- ???

In the end men love better that for which they have made sacrifices than that through which they have enjoyed pleasures.

I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between.

I refuse to write the same story twice. I keep experimenting. I keep learning how to work. I've been at it pretty much 50 years, and I'm now beginning to learn how to do the job well.

The Civic University operates on a global scale but uses its location to form its identity.

Super casual music listeners. That's most of the people in the world. And you have to understand, that's why Top 40 radio exists. It's not there for people who seek out music and who love music.

To freeze time, to hold on to youth, this business makes no sense. It's always time that wins in the end.

religion notoriously claims that they invented morality, they didn't. Morality exists in animals, ya know.

for better or worse, it is the commentator who has the last word.