Sometimes it seems to me that the celebration of a person is really just a prelude to ridicule.

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."

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

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.

Heaven lies in the heart.

You don't need to know what you're escaping from to become a fugitive.

Science has salvaged scrap metal and even found vitamins and valuable oils in refuse, but old people are extravagantly wasted.

There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.

People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.

Do not let anyone claim tribute of American patriotism if they even attempt to remove religion from politics.

It's weird. I feel like people assume if a character is very different than you, that means it's difficult to get into their head or into their skin.

I do find it bizarre that people find it bizarre that I've grown up.

Most men are not that evolved.

I also don't exercise. I can't imagine exercising for two hours. Not my style.