I sometimes think that 'friend' is just a word I use for all the people I haven't murdered yet.

Her eyes [were] like the sudden plunge to blue depths beyond a continental shelf.

I think anyone who makes products has this simultaneous joy and, almost, shame looking at it. You look at it all day and all you can see is all these things you want to make better.

Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does it well and triumphs.

The literary man? An indiscreet man, who devaluates his miseries, divulges them, tells them like so many beads: immodesty-the sideshow of second thoughts-is his rule; he offers himself.

I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it.

You have to believe it and you hate it. I don't have to and I think it's beautiful.

I wish I'd known you when you were alive.

Everything that's difficult you should be able to laugh about.

My hope is that we develop enough courage to develop courage. To try to have, try to learn to treat each other fairly, with generosity and kindness.

Story is about eternal, universal forms, not formulas.

Competition validates you. It creates a category. It permits the sale to be this or that, not yes or no.