If what you want to do is write, then it's madness not to do it.

We are in the realm not of logic but of wistfulness, and I must maintain that wistfulness is a respectable, serious condition. How, otherwise, to account for much of one's life?

Who has the courage to set right those misperceptions that bring us love?

I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate. I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.

Sometimes to walk in shaded parts of Manhattan is to be inserted into a Magritte: the street is night while the sky is day.

I was just a boy on a boat in the universe.

The greater the novel, the more it is apt to embody the special, non-replicable properties of the written medium.

One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed the narratives which cling to you.

New York interposed itself, once and for all, between me and all other places of origin.

It won't be long before we'll be deafened by the screeches of whistles being blown by whistle-blowers blowing the whistle on themselves.

I'm completely cricketed out. If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man.

...I did what most kids do when their world feels destroyed. I tried to care less about what remained...This was untrue, of course.

For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.

True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.

Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.

It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.

I definitely want to do movies and stuff.

We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. Theres a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy.

I want immigration reform to pass, I want people to be able to come out of the shadows.

Violence is the ultimate human degradation.

Wherever I make a movie, no matter what size it is, it's always about a straightforward communication with the producer.