After a while you learn that everything stops.

We buy balloons, we let them go.

I have to return some videotapes

The better you look, the more you see.

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

No one ever likes the right person.

Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.

I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.

And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn't matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst

Gut check. Is your current fear a stumbling block or a stepping stone?

If it wasn't for the elderly we wouldn't be were we are today.

I don't set out to do something weird, but if you see something a certain way and it's a little left of center, and you can realize it, that's a real thrill.

During the course of my life, Grateful Dead played all the time. There were constantly concerts you could go to.

It's really a drag to do the same project over and over again.

I think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror

What is needed isn't merely tolerance but acceptance, wholehearted and unconditional.

They make a secret pact with themelves never to think about the future.

None of us can think we are exempt from concerns for the poor and for social justice.

I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset me very much at that phase in my life, because I used to think: 'What about people like me?