Life is not a chain of events but an area-something spreading out from a hidden centre and welling at once toward all points of the compass.

The less you carry the more you will see, the less you spend the more you will experience.

This is what noir is, what it can be when it stops playing nice--blunt force drama stripped down to the bone, then made to dance across the page.

Don’t let anybody ever tell you life’s fair. Not as long as I’m in it.

College is the only place where you can rebel by doing exactly what people in authority tell you to do.

Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.

Life's so much easier when you're not always maintaining two worlds: the one formed of lies, which feels real, and the one you live in, which often feels like lies. So easy to get them confused.

The truth is, poverty's the environment for alcoholism, and the reservations aren't rich. Maybe cleaning people up in fiction is just as dangerous as presenting them unfiltered.

Writing, of course, it's not all in your head. Not talking about the 'manual' act of typing here either, but that, when your fiction's really working, your whole body's involved, and then some.

What the readers want is a good story, and what the writers always want to luck into, it's a good story.

Football's another sport I absolutely despise. Along with baseball. Really, for me, basketball's the only real sport, the only one that matters.

If there'd been an astronaut on the moon right then, I'm sure I could have seen him. Perhaps he could have looked down and seen me too... the only one who could.

My mother was either telepathic or she had secret cameras in my apartment, and I hoped for the latter.

A person being patient with an insane person is my favorite thing in the world.

You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.

Ill natures, the more you aske them, the more they stick.

We haven't yet got eyes that can gaze into all the splendour that God has created, but we shall get them one day; and that will be the finest fairy tale of all, for we shall be in it ourselves.

And don't rush to make movies. Movies should be made when they're absolutely ready. There's too many bad movies being made.

By the time I turned 18, I moved into a little chalet of my own and felt very grown-up.

We are on the cusp of a marketing revolution. And it's being led by YOU.

You are not free until your past has no effect on your future