It’s such a confidence trick, writing a novel. The main person you have to trick into confidence is yourself. This is hard to do alone.

Dammit Bard, you're going to set the cat on fire.

And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.

Gosh, I made so many mistakes. I mean I still make mistakes. We all do.

Hitler's unconscious seems to be female.

The beautiful thing about poker is that everybody thinks they can play.

Kids today learn a lot about getting to the moon, but very little about getting to heaven.

There are so many flavors of Coke now - Coke with lemon, Coke with vanilla, Coke with lime, Cherry Coke, and they've just brought out another new flavor - Coke with Pepsi.

The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is.

[When I was a kid] I was a surgeon, amputating legs and arms of my paper dolls. And I had a little board with little tacks that I would tack them down to do this.

For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again.