Even though I think writers can sometimes thrive from being misread. It can give them something to push off of.

Sacrificing one's life on the altar of literature is in some ways like sacrificing a goat to some malicious spirit. It's not always a humane or necessary decision.

Hollywood is famous for breeding monsters, and having worked in the business, I've known a lot of them. But only intermittently have I ever found them monstrous. They have many other qualities.

Much to my surprise, there's a sense for people in the cable industry that fiction writers might actually be good at script writing. You can write dialogue!

It's hard enough to make a novel a novel. I wouldn't know how to make it something else at the same time

I sometimes get asked if I think about film stuff while I'm writing fiction, and the answer is, of course not.

These are the kind of movies that only a real apparatchik, someone who thinks that corporations are people, could love.

During the 90s, I watched a lot of people getting fat and prosperous, and I thought, culture itself is the casualty of this.

There was a moment when the Berlin Wall came down and some people felt, "Oh capitalism won. That's the ideology we can believe in now."

It's hard to imagine there's a place for great writing inside a multinational conglomerate.

Everybody says, TV is great, the writer has so much power. I'm still trying to convince myself that's true. When do the writers ever have power? Ever? They don't. Even in the book industry.

We create in people through our actions and example. In this way people around us become reflections of our own behavioral patterns and internal energies

But keep on working and hoping still. For in spite of the grumblers who stand about, somehow, it seems, all things work out.

What you think you become.

Do you really think I'm going to go on record telling you the craziest thing I've ever done. There's a reel in my brain, and I think I'll keep it there. No regrets, though.

Summer in the trees! “It is time to strangle several bad poets.

Sometimes I wonder if we live life by reliving life, rather than by living life.

The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else’s story.

Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well.

Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else.