Amazon is evil, like anything big, but we can't help if it flows the very center of literature.

A bilingual marriage, by the way, is a great way to stay together for longer than you normally would because you can't understand each other very well.

Short chaps evolved naturally, but I didn't title and number them till much later. I like short chaps, like short books too, as a rule.

It is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.

I've seen innovation come from something as simple as a resourceful multibillionaire who wanted to make even more money.

[Out To Sea] began a relationship I had with [director] Martha Coolidge for a few years that was wonderful, and she certainly cast me in the best roles I've ever had in film.

In spite of how things may appear to us, we are never trapped by where we are. The trap is always who we are

America is a rough room and you don't know what might come your way, so you have to be prepared for almost anything.

I'm in general a nostalgic person, but I don't know if I'm nostalgic for the 80s!

Deeply I go down into myself. My god is Dark and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.

You get held to a high standard, almost an unmaintainable standard, in the public eye that you don't even come close to touching.

Editing is not merely a method of the junction of separate scenes or pieces, but is a method that controls the 'psychological guidance' of the spectator.

I would have absolutely messed up 'The Matrix'.