I try very hard to be fair, and I look for ironies. In a way, I live on ironies as a novelist.

That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely.

When rewriting, move quickly. It's a little like cutting your own hair.

Everybody's after a new morning. What do we have to run up and salute tomorrow?

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

You don't want to depend on an editor. If you want to regret something for the rest of your life, you want to make sure you're responsible for it.

I've always remembered. This fellow said to me - if you think someones'doing you wrong, it's not for you to judge. Kill them first and then God can do the judging.

It's all about letting the story take over.

If you couldn't tell the difference between what hurt and what didn't, you had no business being alive. You can't have any good times if you can't tell.

The desires of the heart...are as crooked as a corkscrew.

If you haven't fought for your life for something you want, you don't know what's life all about.

Surprises, I feel now, are primarily a form of violence.

I do not believe that grief is ever so great that it can not be contained within.

If God would concede me His omnipotence for 24 hours, you would see how many changes I would make in the world. But if He gave me His wisdom too, I would leave things as they are.

While you were busy trying to prove God stands behind you, God was before me lighting the trail, so he could lead us both.

Goodness is something that makes us serene and content it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.

Right now my career is totally schizophrenic, because when an American production like Hitchcock Presents asks to see my work I would never dream of showing them my independent films.

Evolution advances, not by a priori design, but by the selection of what works best out of whatever choices offer. We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.

I love being athletic and doing things that are active, even when I'm traveling.

I guess I make things that need energy stronger. I'm like a walking battery.

This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.