Friendship and sentiment and the giving of one's words are very important.

Making movies is controlled anarchy, chaos.

Family politics are worse than world politics. That's all I can say. You don't get to choose your family you get to choose your friends. Your family is imposed upon you.

Hell was full so i came BACK .......

That Plato's Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary snobbery in all history.

I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full.

I'm exhausted almost all the time.

Not every financial company toppled during the 2008 crisis, and some seized the opportunity to take advantage of weaker competitors in the midst of the tumult.

Finally, you get the job, and you think you'll be dancing on the ceiling, but I just wanted to go take a nap. It was just like a weight had been lifted off or something.

It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.

Make your art a gift of inspiration to others to work toward better things.

You have to have a somewhat cold heart to be a writer.

What's in your soul is in your soul.