A novelist must believe he can outdo himself. Or his creative drive would die.

The writer’s job is to arouse emotions. The stronger the emotions the better.

Everybody has multiple personalities—at least three. We’re one person at work, another person in private, and a third person when we appear in polite society.

Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was given to console him from what is.

Instinct is untaught ability.

Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.

That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future because I did not know I was entitled to one.

I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time.

Places remember events.

At the end of the day, you should take every opportunity that comes your way.

I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.

A shot is only as every as good as how well it tells the story.

"True expertise is the most potent form of authority."