It's hard to imagine there's a place for great writing inside a multinational conglomerate.

Sacrificing one's life on the altar of literature is in some ways like sacrificing a goat to some malicious spirit. It's not always a humane or necessary decision.

Hollywood is famous for breeding monsters, and having worked in the business, I've known a lot of them. But only intermittently have I ever found them monstrous. They have many other qualities.

Much to my surprise, there's a sense for people in the cable industry that fiction writers might actually be good at script writing. You can write dialogue!

It's hard enough to make a novel a novel. I wouldn't know how to make it something else at the same time

I sometimes get asked if I think about film stuff while I'm writing fiction, and the answer is, of course not.

These are the kind of movies that only a real apparatchik, someone who thinks that corporations are people, could love.

During the 90s, I watched a lot of people getting fat and prosperous, and I thought, culture itself is the casualty of this.

There was a moment when the Berlin Wall came down and some people felt, "Oh capitalism won. That's the ideology we can believe in now."

Everybody says, TV is great, the writer has so much power. I'm still trying to convince myself that's true. When do the writers ever have power? Ever? They don't. Even in the book industry.

I don't want to say that having power is overrated, but powerlessness can give rise to a different kind of authority, and that's the kind of authority that writes books.

First impressions are rarely worth preserving. Men typically fall short of our expectations.

Seeing either Obstacles or Opportunities is a CHOICE!

But from the good health of the mind comes that which is dear to all and the object of prayer-happiness.

I find I always have to write something on a steamed mirror.

I'm going to do anything and everything, remove every boulder, every hurdle and every problem out of my way to make my dreams come true.

Don't have any opinions. They're bad for business.

You ought to run the hardest when you feel the worst. Never let the other guy know you're down.

The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source.

I don’t want to slam somebody else’s religion. I mean as a Catholic, we’re basically cannibals: We eat Jesus every Sunday, you know? So who am I to say your religion is creepy?

No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.