I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies.

We buy balloons, we let them go.

I have to return some videotapes

The better you look, the more you see.

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

No one ever likes the right person.

Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.

I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.

And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn't matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst

Shred the fake mask of humility into pieces. And put on the mask of arrogance if needed.

It feels so good making so much money when other people have to work for so much less but it is so much beautiful if humanity takes much from you, it is an investment into life.

Joy is not an alternative to opposition; it is part of a compound that includes opposition.

I have always at least, ever since I can remember had a kind of longing for death.

Perhaps people ought to feel with more imagination.

The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.

You only have one life and if you're not doing what you love, what's the point?

Freedom cannot be granted. It must be taken.

If you rent a U-Haul to move your company, it costs twice as much to go from San Francisco to Austin than the other way around, because you can't find enough trucks to leave the Golden State.

An organization needs to be constantly refreshed.