Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.

If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

Your reality, isn’t restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you’re inside of

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

[I]t was [Barnett] Newman who made the famously wry remark, “Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds,

Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.

I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched.

Tis a well spent penny that saves a groat.

There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.

If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.

The secret to sucessful customer service starts with YES!

You can disseminate your art, and it's all such easy access now. The upside to it is that more people are creating than ever before.

All the vitamins needed seem to be found in plebian dishes.

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.