Plants are not cognizant. When we cut a leaf, we assume that the plant is suffering. But that's our own anthropomorphism about what's going on.

Edit your manuscript until your fingers bleed and you have memorized every last word. Then, when you are certain you are on the verge of insanity...edit one more time!

To lead a human life, a man must have a notion of himself as having a past and a future.

She gave me this look – she might have been watching from a lifeboat as the ship went down. Or maybe it was the other way around.

Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.

I love Evensong. There's something sad and essentially English about it.

I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed booze to write. I'm glad I was disabused.

Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.

I'm telling you, monsters aren't born, they're made.

Before, baseball was something to do to get ready for the hockey season. Now, people look to play baseball, period. It's something you stick with.

Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns.