When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.

I have a study now - I used not to. I also love working in cafes; ignoring noise is good for concentration.

Remove all the traffic lights, yellow lines, one-way systems and road markings, and let blissful anarchy prevail. I imagine it would produce a kind of harmony.

I like to come into my workspace and feel its a living environment and not frozen, which is why I often change or add to the pictures on the wall.

If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.

I dont get distracted until the weight of other things left undone finally tips the balance; my mind is flooded with calls, bills, supermarkets, letters, and I have to stop and sort things out.

My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.

Oh, I always think everyone feels left out.

Horses know how to be loyal but still keep their distance.

When Im writing, I spend all my time in The Grocer on Elgin buying ready-made meals; I think they are the only reason my husband and kids havent left me.

Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.

my heart no longer beats but is a tugging muscle,

There is always a way.

The eyes of others our prisons

> Why does everything that lives have to die?< So life would be precious, Asher. Something that is yours forever, is never precious.

As women shut down their needs, they also shut down their sense of pleasure.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

I think you had the GOP down there in North Carolina reaching out to African-American voters and this guy coming on television and using the N-word and saying what Don Yelton said.

Science is the only religion of mankind.

Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.

Only cinema narrows its concern down to its content, that is to its story. It should, instead, concern itself with its form, its structure.