When I read Jerome D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" that was the first time I felt my mind blow open. I thought that book was speaking to me. I was 12 or 13 when I read that. I read everything on my mother's bookshelves.

He fell in love with the way she closed her eyes, long before he fell in love with her.

Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them.

I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist

That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.

Maybe a hundred years ago our people should have run away from this place, I said... And then run from the next place and the next place and the place after that? You run once, what makes you think you won't have to run all the rest of your life?... We love moment to moment... Everything changes. One minute we are part of the river, and the next we are joined with the sea.

That was the way love was, invisible, there whether or not you wanted to see it or admit to it.