Do not say

But a small part of him also knew that the reason he'd never ventured anywhere was because of the worry that the reality of the world wouldn't match up to his dreams.

This city is like no other city in the world. It is brilliant but it is bloated, and I've never called it home

The greatest modern error is not to proclaim that God died, but to believe that the devil has died.

When people warned me there would be long periods out of work if I became an actor, I couldn't keep a straight face because that was exactly what I had in mind.

He who cries, 'What do I care about universality? I only know what is in me,' does not know even that.

It is possible for every human being to be blissful, if you are willing to pay a little attention to how this human mechanism functions.

Don't use your brain to play it, let your feelings guide your fingers.

There's a cancer on the presidency.

I do know that I need solitude, not only to write but to nourish myself (being, like most writers, an introvert) so that I do keep trying to write.

What's there to be nervous about? You just go out and play the game.