Always trust strangers, it's the people you know that let you down.
As a writer I care about America, and care about its carelessness.
We do not read to pass the time, but to inhabit time.
Art you can flush down the loo means nothing to me, even were the loo to be selected by Marcel Duchamp
It was beguiling to live in a country, Scotland, that didn't look enough like itself to be a location for its own movies... I remember consulting a film book and discovering that Arthur Freed decided to shoot Brigadoon in Hollywood because nowhere in Scotland looked Scottish enough.
I've been asked which of the other arts novel-writing is most like, and I have come to believe it is acting. Of course, in terms of pattern it can be like music, in terms of structure it can be like painting, but the job to me is most like acting.