Writing cannot be done in a state of desirelessness.

A lawsuit is to ordinary life what war is to peacetime. In a lawsuit, everybody on the other side is bad. A trial transcript is a discourse in malevolence.

This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother.

I was always trying to take art photographs, but the most interesting pictures were the snapshots. The artsy pictures were boring, always.

The writer, like the murderer, needs a motive.

Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked within our hearts.

Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.

If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.

The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is.

There are good photographers who might elevate themselves to the ranks of the great simply by burning most of their work.

Malice remains its animating impulse.

It wasn't normal, it was quite far from normal, but they were hers and she loved everything about them.

Trust the wait. Embrace the uncertainty. Enjoy the beauty of becoming. When nothing is certain, anything is possible

Usually comedy is only available to us ladies in the romantic comedy. That's why I hate romantic comedies.

I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds.

The movies today are too rich to have any room for genuine artists. They produce a few passable craftsmen, but no artists. Can you imagine a Beethoven making $100, 000 a year?

I both love and am terrified by Greg Van Eekhout's vision of Los Angeles. I already want to go back.

A thing is never seen as it really is.

But nothing beats a Woody Allen film on a Sunday night, with a glass of wine and some leftovers.

Oh, did I tell you I have a cookbook? I have a cookbook deal.

As a woman especially I've found a lot of freedom in music.