I would very much like to become a best-selling author.

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.

If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

Your reality, isn’t restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you’re inside of

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

Never question the clouds, they're only bringing the life-giving rain.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.

Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that they had no control over.

If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?

To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.

I learned that, "Mike, you get your first job on your ability and every job after that on your dependability."

Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.

Love, acceptance, friends, two kids that I love. I have to take care of myself for them. I've also been a vegetarian for two years.

There is still time - in the lee, in the quiet, in the extraordinary light.

we cant wait for someone else to do it, we have to take matters into our own hands or it will never be done.